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IN the issue of the Physikalische Zeitschrift for November 15, Prof. E. Warburg gives a sympathetic account of the life and scientific work of his former assistant and colleague, Karl Richard von Koch, who died a short time ago after having resigned the professorship of physics at the Stuttgart Technical School in 1919 owing to heart trouble. Prof. Koch was born at Stettin in 1852, and after studying at Bonn, Freiburg and Gottingen, graduated Ph.D. at Freiburg in 1875. While librarian there he commenced research in physics under Warburg, and was appointed lecturer in physics in 1881 and extra professor in 1886. In 1888 he became professor at the Aachen, and in 1891 at the Stuttgart Technical School. Here he designed the new Physical Institute, opened in 1910, which has since served as a model of what such an institute should be. His scientific work lay mainly in the direction of improving methods of measurement, especially in elasticity, but he took great interest in the application of physical principles to practical problems and to natural phenomena. His best-known researches are probably those on the elasticity of metals at high temperatures, on the determination of gravity, and on the aurorae.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 115, 93 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115093c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/115093c0