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Abbreviated Biographical Sketch of Walter Ritz
(Walther Heinrich Wilhelm Ritz)
Latest update 27 Jul 2019
Prepared as an appendix in
Lorentz and Poincaré Invariance - 100 Years of Relativity,
Advanced Series on Theoretical Physical Science - Vol.
8
Jong-Ping Hsu, Yuan-Zhong Zhang,
Copyright © World Scientific, 2001, New Jersey, London, Singapore, Hong Kong.
Used with permission.
Walter Ritz was born in Sion in the southern Swiss canton of Valais on February 22, 1878.
His father, Raphael Ritz, a native of Valais, was a well-known landscape and interior scenes artist. His mother was the daughter of the engineer Noerdlinger of Tübingen Germany.
Walter ritz biography
After an all-to-short but brilliant career in physics Ritz died at age 31 in Göttingen Germany on July 7, 1909.
As a specially gifted student, the young Ritz excelled academically at the Lycèe communal of Sion.
In 1897 he entered the Polytechnic school of Zurich where he began studies in enginee