Otto Wilhelm Madelung [SEP] place of death
Otto Wilhelm Madelung
Otto Wilhelm Madelung (May 15, 1846, Gotha – July 22, 1926, Göttingen) was a German surgeon who was a native of Gotha. His son, physicist Erwin Madelung (1881–1972), discovered the Madelung constant.
Academic career.
In 1869 he received his medical doctorate from the University of Tübingen, afterwards being assigned to a military hospital during the Franco-Prussian War. He later served as a surgical assistant in Bonn, and in 1873–74 worked as an assistant at the pathological
Braun's rocket program. 
After the cessation of hostilities, Madelung resumed academic work in both Germany and the USA. Madelung's research at the Naval Medical Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland included the effects of high acceleration on the human body. 
He permanently returned to live in Germany from 1954 until his death in 1972. The second son of his marriage to Elisabeth Emma née Messerschmidt is Wilferd Madelung, a noted scholar in Islamic studies.
Early life.
Madelung's father was Otto Wilhelm Madelung, a surgeon