Max Abraham was a German physicist known for his work on electromagnetism and his opposition to the theory of relativity.
10 Facts About Max Abraham
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Max Abraham's father was Moritz Abraham and his mother was Selma Moritzsohn.
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From 1900 to 1909, Max Abraham worked at Gottingen as a privatdozent, an unpaid lecturing position.
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Max Abraham developed his theory of the electron in 1902, in which he hypothesized that the electron was a perfect sphere with a charge divided evenly around its surface.
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Max Abraham's model was competing with that developed by Hendrik Lorentz and Albert Einstein which seem to have become more widely accepted; nevertheless, Max Abraham never gave up his model, since he considered it was based on "common sense".
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Max Abraham was a staunch opponent of the theory of relativity.
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In 1909 Max Abraham travelled to the United States to accept a position at the University of Illinois, but ended up returning to Gottingen after a few months.
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Max Abraham was later invited to Italy by Tullio Levi-Civita, and found work as the professor of rational mechanics at the Politecnico di Milano university until 1914.
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When World War I started, Max Abraham was forced to return to Germany.
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Max Abraham died on 16 November 1922 in Munich, Germany.