Jakob Karl Ernst Halm [SEP] date of birth
Jakob Karl Ernst Halm
Jakob Karl Ernst Halm (born Bingen am Rhein: 30 November 1866 – South Africa 17 July 1944) was a pioneer of stellar dynamics and the first person to suggest the existence of a mass-luminosity relation for stars.
Education.
Halm went to school in Bingen and studied later at Giessen, Berlin and Kiel. He obtained his PhD at Kiel in 1890 for work on linear differential equations.
Career.
Assistant at the University Observatory, Strasbourg (1889-1895).
Halm (surname)
Halm is a German surname.
Notable people with this surname include:
- Alfred Halm (1861–1951), Austrian screenwriter
- Friedrich Halm (1806-1871), Austrian dramatist
- Günter Halm (1922-2017), German soldier
- Harry Halm (1901–1980), German actor
- Heinz Halm (born 1942), German scholar
- Jakob Karl Ernst Halm (1866-1944), German physicist
- Karl Felix Halm (1809-1882), German