Enrique Loedel Palumbo

Enrique Loedel Palumbo (Montevideo Uruguay, June 29, 1901 – La Plata Argentina, July 31, 1962) was an Uruguayan physicist.

Loedel Palumbo was born in Montevideo, Uruguay and studied at the University of La Plata in Argentina. His doctoral advisor was the German physicist of Jewish origin Richard Gans. Loedel wrote his Ph.D. thesis in December 1925 on optical and electrical constants of sugar cane. An extract of the thesis was published in German in ''Annalen der Physik'' in 1926. He then began his career as professor in La Plata.

During Einstein's visit to Argentina in 1925 they had a conversation about the differential equation of a point-source gravitational field, which resulted in a paper published by Loedel in ''Physikalische Zeitschrift''. It is claimed that this is the first research paper on relativity ever published by a Latin American scientist.

Loedel Palumbo then spent some time in Germany working with Erwin Schrödinger and Max Planck. He returned to Argentina in 1930 and from there on concentrated on teaching. He published several scientific papers during his career in international journals and wrote several books (in Spanish). Provided by Wikipedia