Education
He graduated from the Steglitz Gymnasium, Berlin, Germany in 1904. He obtained his BS in Physics, at the University of Berlin in 1908. He obtained his PhD in Physics at the University of Berlin in 1912 under Max Planck and Heinrich Rubens, with a thesis entitled: Zur relativtheoretischen Energetik und Dynamik.
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