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Abraham was born in Danzig, Germany (now Gdańsk in Poland ) to a family of Jewish Merchant s. Attending the University Of Berlin , he studied under Max Planck . He graduated in 1897 . For the next three years, Abraham worked as Planck's assistant. From 1900 to 1909 , Abraham worked at Göttingen as a Privatdozent , an unpaid lecturing position. 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. Hendrik Lorentz (1899, 1904) and Albert Einstein (1905) developed a different theory which became more widely accepted; nevertheless, Abraham never gave up believing that his views were correct, since in his eyes they were based on " Common Sense ". In 1909 Abraham travelled to the United States to accept a position at the University Of Illinois , but ended up returning to Göttingen after a few months. He was later invited to Italy by Tullio Levi-Civita , and found work as the professor of Rational Mechanics at the University Of Milan until 1914 . When World War I started, Abraham was forced to return to Germany. During this time he worked on the theory of Radio Transmission . After the war, he still was not allowed back into Milan, so until 1921 he worked at Stuttgart as the professor of Physics at Technische Hochschule . After his work at Stuttgart, Abraham accepted the position of chair in Aachen ; however, before he started his work there he was diagnosed with a Brain Tumor . He died on November 16, 1922 in Munich, Germany . After his death, Max Born and Max Von Laue wrote about him in an obituary: ''He loved his absolute aether, his field equations, his rigid electron just as a youth loves his first flame, whose memory no later experience can extinguish.'' |
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