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Walter Maurice Elsasser ( Mannheim, 20 marzo 1904 – Baltimora, 14 ottobre 1991) è stato un fisico e biologo tedesco, considerato il padre della teoria geodinamica .
Walter Maurice Elsasser (March 20, 1904 – October 14, 1991) was a German-born American physicist, a developer of the presently accepted dynamo theory as an explanation of the Earth's magnetism. He proposed that this magnetic field resulted from electric currents induced in the fluid outer core of the Earth.
Prof. di fisica all'univ. dell'Utah e, in seguito, all'univ. di Princeton (New Jersey); dal 1968 prof. presso l'istituto di geofisica e fluidodinamica dell'univ. del Maryland. Ha svolto importanti ricerche di geomagnetismo e di fisica dell'atmosfera.
Walter M. Elsasser was a German-born American physicist notable for a variety of contributions to science. Elsasser received the Ph.D. from the University of Göttingen in 1927, then accepted teaching appointments at Frankfurt, Paris, and the California Institute of Technology.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Chances are small that anyone will ever again make such fundamental discoveries in physics, meteorology, and geo physics as Walter Elsasser, who died essentially of old age on October 14, 1991, in Baltimore, where he was Home wood Professor at Johns Hopkins University.
WALTER ELSASSER WAS TRAINED as a theoretical physicist and made several important contributions to fundamental problems of atomic physics, including interpretation of the experiments on electron scattering by Davisson and Germer as an effect of de Broglie's electron waves and recognition of the shell structure of atomic nuclei.
Following his work on geomagnetism, Elsasser turned his attention to the statistical implications of the extreme complexity of biological cells and their reproduction process, publishing his profound conclusions in a book Reflections on a Theory of Organisms (Elsasser, 1998).
