Editing Max Abraham (section)

==Biography==

Abraham was born in [[Danzig]], [[Imperial Germany]] (now [[Gdańsk]] in [[Poland]]) to a family of [[Jewish]] [[merchant]]s. His father was Moritz Abraham and his mother was Selma Moritzsohn.  Attending the [[University of Berlin]], he studied under [[Max Planck]]. He graduated in 1897. For the next three years, Abraham worked as Planck's assistant.<ref>[https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Abraham_Max/ Max Abraham]. MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive. Retrieved January 30, 2021.</ref>

From 1900 to 1909, Abraham worked at [[Göttingen]] as a [[privatdozent]], an unpaid lecturing position. Abraham developed his theory of the [[electron]] in 1902, in which he hypothesized that the electron was a perfect sphere with a charge divided evenly around its surface. Abraham's model was competing with that developed by [[Hendrik Lorentz]] (1899, 1904) and [[Albert Einstein]] (1905) which seem to have become more widely accepted; nevertheless, Abraham never gave up his model, since he considered it was based on "[[common sense]]". Abraham was a staunch opponent of the theory of relativity.<ref>Howard, Don; Stachel, John. (1989). ''Einstein and the History of General Relativity''. Birkhäuser Boston. p. 183. {{ISBN|9780817633929}}</ref>

In 1909 Abraham travelled to the [[United States]] to accept a position at the [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign|University of Illinois]], but ended up returning to Göttingen after a few months. He was later invited to [[Italy]] by [[Tullio Levi-Civita]], and found work as the professor of [[Classical mechanics|rational mechanics]] at the [[Politecnico di Milano]] university until 1914.

When [[World War I]] started, Abraham was forced to return to Germany. During this time he worked on the theory of [[radio transmission]]. After the war, he still was not allowed back into Milan, so until 1921 he worked at [[Stuttgart]] as the professor of [[physics]] at [[Technische Hochschule]].

After his work at Stuttgart, Abraham accepted the position of chair in [[Aachen]]; however, before he started his work there he was diagnosed with a [[brain tumor]]. He died on 16 November 1922 in [[Munich, Germany]].

After his death, [[Max Born]] and [[Max von Laue]] wrote about him in an obituary: ''He loved his [[Absolute time and space|absolute aether]], his [[field equations]], his rigid electron just as a youth loves his first flame, whose memory no later experience can extinguish.''<ref>{{cite book |first=Abraham |last=Pais |author-link=Abraham Pais|title=Subtle is the Lord |url=https://archive.org/details/subtleislord00pais |url-access=limited |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=2005 |isbn=0-19-280672-6 |page=[https://archive.org/details/subtleislord00pais/page/n253 232]}}</ref>