Josef Lense was an Austria

Austria

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In 1914 Lense got his doctorate

Doctorate

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 under Samuel Oppenheim

Samuel Oppenheim

Samuel Oppenheim was an Austrian astronomer.In 1875 Oppenheim began to study mathematics, physics and astronomy in Vienna. He took his Staatsexamen in 1880. From 1881-1887 he worked at the Observatory of Vienna and from 1888-1896 at the Kuffner observatory in Vienna...

. From 1927-28 he was Professor

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 ordinarius and from 1928-1946 Professor extraordinarius for applied mathematics at the Technical University of Munich

Technical University of Munich

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. From 1946 until 1961 he was director of the mathematical institute of the same university.

Lense (together with Hans Thirring

Hans Thirring

Hans Thirring was an Austrian theoretical physicist, professor, and father of the physicist Walter Thirring....

) is known as one of the two discoverers of the Lense-Thirring effect

Frame-dragging

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Publications

• Lense, J. and Thirring, H. Über den Einfluss der Eigenrotation der Zentralkörper auf die Bewegung der Planeten und Monde nach der Einsteinschen Gravitationstheorie. Physikalische Zeitschrift 19 156-63 (1918) [On the Influence of the Proper Rotation of Central Bodies on the Motions of Planets and Moons According to Einstein's Theory of Gravitation]
• Vorlesungen über höhere Mathematik. Leibniz-Verlag 1948 und weitere Auflagen.
• Vom Wesen der Mathematik und ihren Grundlagen. Leibniz-Verlag 1949.
• Kugelfunktionen. Geest und Portig 1954.
• Reihenentwicklungen in der mathematischen Physik. Verlag de Gruyter 1947, weitere Auflage 1953.
• Analytische projektive Geometrie. 1965.