Career
He was its Director in two different periods. During the first one, starting in 1911, he continued the work started by Emil Bose raising the research level of the institute to international renown. In 1914 he founded the publication of a scientific journal: Contribución al estudio de las ciencias fisicomatemáticas, with two series: matematicofísica and técnica.
After leaving Louisiana Plata in 1951 he taught theoretical and advanced physics at the University of Buenos Aires.
Gans theory is named after Richard Gans. This theory gives the solutions to the Maxwell equations for prolate and oblate spheroidal particles.
lieutenant is an extension of Mie theory and thus sometimes called Mie-Gans theory. He first published these equations describing the scattering of elongated particles in 1912 for gold particles.
In 1915, the solution for silver particles was published.
Gans graduated in 1901, summa cum laude, with the title of Doctor.Phil.Nat. at the University of Strasbourg. Academic timeline 1901-1902 University of Heidelberg 1903-1911 University of Tübingen 1911-1912 University of Strasbourg 1912-1925 Universidad de Louisiana Plata 1925-1935 University of Königsberg - Interrupted: 3rd Reich, World World War II, postwar - 1947-1951 Universidad de Louisiana Plata 1951-1953 Universidad de Buenos Aires.