Walter Rogowski

Walter Rogowski (7 May 1881 – 10 March 1947) was a German physicist who bridged the gap between theoretical physics and applied technology in numerous areas of electronics.

In 1900, Rogowski began his studies at the RWTH Aachen, under Arnold Sommerfeld, who occupied the Chair for Applied Mechanics.

He acquired his Vordiplom in 1902 and went on to study at the Danzig Technische Hochschule (now Gdańsk University of Technology), where he was also a scientific assistant.

Rogowski, with his head assistant Eugen Flegler, began to put together a plan for their own building.

It was his 1927 paper in Archiv für Elektrotechnik[9] that Ernest Lawrence read in 1929, which gave him the idea for electrical resonance particle acceleration of protons, resulting in the cyclotron.