Ernst Gehrcke
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Ernst Gehrcke (* 1 July 1878 in Berlin, Germany † 25 January 1960 near Berlin) german physicist.
Gehrcke is among the best-known Antirelativists, including Paul Weyland, Philipp Lenard and Johannes Stark who rejected the Theory of Relativity.
Gehrcke worked from 1901 to 1946 at Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt in Berlin. He published several works, including "Massensuggestion der Relativitätstheorie" (Mass Suggestion of the Theory of Relativity), "Handbuch der physikalischen Optik" (Handbook of Physical Optics) and "Physik und Erkenntnistheorie" (Physics and Cognition Theory). After the second world war, he worked at the Univerisity of Jena, from 1949 on in the western part of Berlin.
