| Kurt Mendelssohn AKA Kurt Alfred Georg Mendelssohn Born: 7-Jan-1906
Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
Died: 18-Sep-1980
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Mathematician, Physicist, Archaeologist Nationality: England
Executive summary: Cryogenics and pyramids Physicist Kurt Mendelssohn fled the German Reich, installed the first helium liquifier at Oxford, and conducted important pre-WW2 work on superconductivity. He also wrote a popular book, The Quest for Absolute Zero, explaining low-temperature physics. He is better remembered for his extracurricular work as a pyramidologist, including his landmark estimate of the workforce necessary to construct the pyramids of Dahshur, Giza, and Med�m. He theorized that the third section of the Med�m Pyramid disastrously slipped and buried the workers constructing that pyramid beneath the rubble that surrounds Med�m, and that this tragedy led to the design alterations visible in the so-called Bent Pyramid of Dahshur. He studied under Frederick Lindemann and Walther Nernst, his students included Nicholas Kurti, and he was a great-great-grandson of Saul Mendelssohn, the younger brother of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. Father: Ernst Moritz Mendelssohn
Mother: Elisabeth Ruprecht Mendelssohn
Wife: (married)
Teacher: Oxford University (1933-73)
Hughes Medal 1967
Royal Society
Naturalized UK Citizen
German Ancestry
Jewish Ancestry
Author of books:
Progress in Cryogenics (1959)
The Quest for Absolute Zero: The Meaning of Low Temperature Physics (1966)
Cryogenic Engineering: Present Status and Future Development (1968)
The Riddle of the Pyramids (1974)
The Secret of Western Domination (1976)
Cryophysics (1983)
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