Before World War I, Reissner designed the first successful all-metal aircraft, the Reissner Canard (or Ente) with both skin and structure made of metal. This was constructed with assistance from Hugo Junkers who had previously shown little interest in aviation.
Hans Reissner had a distinguished career as professor of aeronautical engineering (as the field would now be called). Early on, he held the mechanics chair at the Rheinisch - Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen.
A Reissner-Nordström black hole is a black hole with mass and electric charge, but no spin. The geometry was discovered independently by Reissner (1916) 1 and Nordström (1918) 2.
Hans J. Reissner can be credited with numerous significant contributions to the fields of engineering, aeronautics, mathematics, and physics. However, as a victim of Nazi persecution, he has been anonymised and disregarded ever since.
Since 1908 Reissner communicated with Junkers about possible aircraft developments. Reissner developed his first own aircraft, a double wing aircraft, which used steel and textiles.
Hans Jacob Reissner, [1] also known as Jacob Johannes Reissner, [2] (18 January 1874 – 2 October 1967) was a German aeronautical engineer whose avocation was mathematical physics. During World War I he was awarded the Iron Cross second class (for civilians) for his pioneering work on aircraft...
Hans Jacob Reissner, [1] also known as Jacob Johannes Reissner [2] (18 January 1874, Berlin – 2 October 1967, Mt. Angel, Oregon), was a German aeronautical engineer whose avocation was mathematical physics.
The Reissner–Nordström metric thus describes a spherically symmetric black hole with a color charge and (or) a magnetic monopole (see also Heusler, 1998).
Reissner designed the first successful aircraft with all-metal wing and tail surfaces and the first controllable-pitch propeller. He began his career in Germany, working with Ferdinand Zeppelin, Hugo Junkers and also teaching.