Karl Scheel

Karl Friedrich Franz Christian Scheel (10 March 1866 in Rostock – 8 November 1936 in Berlin) was a German physicist.

He was a senior executive officer and head of Department IIIb at the Reich Physical and Technical Institute.

[1][2] After receipt of his doctorate, Scheel became a part-time assistant at the Kaiserliche Normal-Aichungs-Commission (Imperial Bureau of Standards).

From 1904 to 1931, he was a Mitglied (member) and finally Geheimer Regierungsrat und Leiter (senior executive officer and head) of Depeartment IIIb at the PTR.

[5][6] Scheel and his wife Melida left an endowment which is used by the Physikalische Gesellschaft zu Berlin (PGzB, Physical Society in Berlin), a regional association of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (German Physical Society), to yearly award the Karl-Scheel-Preis (Karl Scheel Prize), for outstanding scientific work.