Eugen von Lommel

Eugen Cornelius Joseph von Lommel (1837 to 1899) was a German physicist, born in Edenkoben in the Palatinate, Kingdom of Bavaria, and died in Munich. He is notable for the Lommel polynomial, the Lommel function, the Lommel-Weber function and the Lommel differential equation, and as the doctoral advisor of the Nobel Prize winner Johannes Stark. He studied mathematics and physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München from 1854 to 1858, taught physics and chemistry at the canton school of Schwyz from 1860 to 1865, then taught at the high school in Zurich and was Privatdozent at the University of Zurich and the Federal Polytechnic School until 1867. After a year as professor of physics at Hohenheim he was appointed to a chair of experimental physics at the University of Erlangen in 1868, and in 1886 he went to Munich, where he died. His works include Das Wesen des Lichts (1874) and a Lehrbuch der Experimentalphysik.