The Start of My Scientific Career

Abstract

My studies in physics. My surprised and happy father gave me permission to spend some further semesters in Dorpat. This was particularly worthwhile for me because I’d sensed that my knowledge of physics, though enough to get me through the exams, was not sufficient for the research I planned to do. I therefore asked the professor of physics, Arthur von Öttingen , for permission to work in his institute and to this he readily agreed. The space available in the physics institute was the same as that in the chemistry institute on the floor below, but except for me and Öttingen’s assistant Grönberg nobody worked in physics, so I got a room all to myself.