Walther Kossel

Career In 1921, Kossel was appointed Ordinarius Professor of Theoretical Physics at Kiel University. independently proposed the same model.

In 1932, Kossel took the appointment as Ordinarius Professor of Theoretical Physics at Technische Hochschule Danzig.

In 1933, he signed the Vow of allegiance of the Professors of the German Universities and High-Schools to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialistic State.

In 1944, he was awarded the Max-Planck medal by the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft.

In 1945, Kossel became Professor of Theoretical Physics and Director of the Physics Institute at the University of Tübingen, a position he held until his retirement in 1953.

Kossel died on 22 May 1956 in Tübingen at the age of 68. He is buried, as is his father Albrecht, at the Bergfriedhof in Heidelberg.

Selected publications Walther Kossel Bemerkung zur Absorption homogener Röntgenstrahlen, Verh. D. Deutsch. Phys Ges (2) 16 898-909 (1914). Received 27 September 1914, published in issue No. 20 of 30 October 1914. As cited in Mehra, Volume 1, Part 2, 2001, p. 795. Walther Kossel Bemerkung zur Absorption homogener Röntgenstrahlen. II, Verh. D. Deutsch. Phys Ges (2) 16 953-963 (1914). Received 23 October 1914, published in issue No. 22 of 30 November 1914. As cited in Mehra, Volume 5, Part 2, 2001, p. 919. Walther Kossel Bemerkung zum Seriencharakter der Röntgenstrahlen, Verh. D. Deutsch. Phys Ges (2) 18 339-359 (1916). Received 31 August 1916, published in issue No. 15-18 of 30 September 1916. As cited in Mehra, Volume 5, Part 2, 2001, p. 919. Walther Kossel, “Uber Molkulbildung als Frage der Atombau”, Ann. Phys., 1916, 49:229-362.