Education
He studied physics at the Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg, and from 1893 to 1897 at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin. He received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1898 in Erlangen.
physicist university professor
He studied physics at the Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg, and from 1893 to 1897 at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin. He received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1898 in Erlangen.
Wehnelt"s parents returned to Germany from Brazil when he was still a boy. He taught as a lecturer from 1901 and associate professor of physics from 1904 at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. He moved again in 1906 to the University of Berlin, where he taught until his retirement in 1937 as a professor and research.
In 1934 he was appointed director of the Physics Department.