Rudolf Seeliger (12 November 1886 – 20 January 1965) was a German physicist who specialized in electric discharges in gases and plasma physics.
The topic of his thesis, the physics of electrical currents in gas, set the theme for his life’s field of research.
In 1918, he was called by Johannes Stark,[3] Director of the Institute of Physics at the University of Greifswald, to be extraordinarius professor there.
[4][5][6][7][8] In collaboration with Ernst Gehrcke at the PTR, Seeliger continued his research on electrical discharges in gases.
[9][10] In 1946, Paul Schulz founded the Forschungsstelle für Gasentladungsphysik (Research Center for Gas Discharge Physics) under the Academy of Sciences.