Exner, Franz

Evans Meredith G. 764, 765, 772,845 Exner Franz 70,71 Eyler Edward E. 510 Eyring Henry 764,772,776,789,845... 

Presumably the spirit of Ludwig Boltzmann (deceased in 1906), operating especially intensively in Vienna, directed me first towards the probability theory in physics. Then, (...) a closer contact with the experimental works of Exner and Rohrmuth oriented me to the physiological theory of colours, in which I tried to confirm and develop the achievements of Helmholtz. In 1911-1920 I was a laboratory assistant under Franz Exner in Vienna, of course, with 4 years long pause caused by war. I have obtained my habilitation in 1914 at the University of Vienna, while in 19201 accepted an offer from Max Wien and became his assistant professor at the new theoretical physics department in Jens This lasted, unfortunately, only one semester, because I could not refuse a professorshp at the Technical University in Stuttgart. I was there also only one semester, because April... 

Franz Frederick Exner developed a rotating anode expressly for industrial analytical practice that greatly reduced the time needed for analysis. The next year, Smith and another doctoral student, Joel Henry Hildebrand, created a double-cup mercury cathode by explicitly borrowing the basic operating principle of Dow Chemical Company s Castner-Kellner electrolytic cell. These inventions illustrate the interrelationship between industrial and academic science in the early twentieth century that produced a flow of ideas and methods in both directions. 

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