İTÜ Mezunları Derneği ABD - İTÜ Alumni Association

*Prof. Erwin Finlay Freundlich* *1885 - 1964*
*Director, Einstein Institute, Berlin - 1933* *Istanbul Uni. 1933 - 1937* *Prague Uni. 1937 - 1939* *St. Andrews Uni. Scotland UK 1939 - 1957* *Uni. Mainz, Germany 1957 - 1964*

Prof. Freundlich (1885-1964) was a German astronomer. He was a working associate of Prof. Albert Einstein and had managed the Einstein Turm in Postsdam near Berlin, Germany. He was the Director of Einstein Institute. Later in 1933, he was expelled by Nazi government from his university and was forced to leave Germany. He was invited by the Turkish Government and emigrated to Turkey to serve in Istanbul between 1933-1937. He was the PhD supervisor of Nüzhet Gökdoğan and of Marie Paris Pishmish at Istanbul University Department of Astronomy. Upon recommendation by Freundlich, Pishmish later attended Harvard University. After Harvard, she married the Harvard mathematician Felix Recillas, moved to Mexico with her husband and founded the science of astronomy in Mexico. Publications: * Die Grundlagen der Einsteinschen Gravitationstheorie. Mit e. Vorwort von Albert Einstein. – Berlin : Springer, 1920 The Foundations of Einstein's Theory of Gravitation * Über die Rotverschiebung der Spektrallinien with Max Born (1953) * Theoretische Bemerkungen zu Freundlichs Formel für die stellare Rotverschiebung (1953) * Cosmology (1971)
After 1937, Freundlich moved to Prague. Later when Nazis invaded Prague in 1939, he left and joined the Uni. of St. Andrews in Scotland. He introduced experiments for which the general theory of relativity could be tested by astronomical observations based on the gravitational redshift. Link >>>: Prof. Erwin Finlay Freundlich (by St. Andrews Univ. Scotland UK) Link >>>: Our Memorial Page for Prof. Wolfgang Gleissberg at Ist. University Dept. of Astronomy 1933 - 1958 Link >>>: Memorial Page for Prof. Marie Paris Pishmish	PHOTO: Turkish Magazine Yedigün's Reporter Aslan Tufan, Dr. Wolfgang Gleissberg, Prof. Erwin Finlay Freundlich, 1937, Istanbul University.

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