Josef Lense (28 October 1890 in

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– 28 December 1985 in

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) was an

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. In 1914 Lense obtained his

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under

Samuel Oppenheim Samuel Oppenheim (19 November 1857 in Braunsberg – 15 August 1928 in Vienna) was an Austrian astronomer. In 1875 Oppenheim began to study mathematics, physics and astronomy in Vienna. He took his Staatsexamen in 1880. From 1881–1887 he worke ...

. From 1927-28 he was

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ordinarius and from 1928–1946 Professor extraordinarius for applied mathematics at the

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. From 1946 until 1961 he was director of the

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of the same university. Lense, together with

Hans Thirring Hans Thirring (March 23, 1888 – March 22, 1976) was an Austrian theoretical physicist, professor, and father of the physicist Walter Thirring. He won the Haitinger Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1920. Together with the mathemati ...

, is known as one of the two discoverers of the Lense-Thirring effect.

Publications

*Lense, J. and Thirring, H. Über den Einfluss der Eigenrotation der Zentralkörper auf die Bewegung der Planeten und Monde nach der Einsteinschen Gravitationstheorie. ''Physikalische Zeitschrift'' 19 156-63 (1918) n the Influence of the Proper Rotation of Central Bodies on the Motions of Planets and Moons According to Einstein's Theory of Gravitation* ''Vorlesungen über höhere Mathematik''. Leibniz-Verlag 1948 und weitere Auflagen. * ''Vom Wesen der Mathematik und ihren Grundlagen''. Leibniz-Verlag 1949. * ''Kugelfunktionen''. Geest und Portig 1954. * ''Reihenentwicklungen in der mathematischen Physik''. Verlag de Gruyter 1947, weitere Auflage 1953. * ''Analytische projektive Geometrie''. 1965. {{DEFAULTSORT:Lense, Josef Austrian relativity theorists Academic staff of the Technical University of Munich 1890 births 1985 deaths