Mie Theory 1908-2008

Introduction

broken links updated (16 April 2019)
In 1908 Gustav Mie published his famous paper on the colour of Gold colloids. This paper is still much cited today.
In this web page we try to collect information on the various activities that intend to somehow celebrate this hundred years of Mie's theory.

Conferences

Mie Theory 1908 - 2008, Present developments and interdisciplinary aspects of light scattering, Halle, Germany 15.-16. 9. 2008. (21.2.2008). Proceedings: T. Wriedt, W. Hergert (editors): Mie Theory 1908-2008. Present developments and interdisciplinary aspects of light scattering. Universität Bremen, Bremen 2008.

11th Conference on Electromagnetic and Light Scattering by Nonspherical Particles (ELS - 11), 7-12 Sept. 2008, University of Hertfordshire, UK.

Light scattering: Mie and more. Gesellschaft für Aerosolforschung (GAeF) Conference 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany, July 2 to 3, 2008.

Mie's original paper and translations

Gustav Mie: Beiträge zur Optik trüber Medien, speziell kolloidaler Metallösungen. Annalen der Physik, Vierte Folge, Band 25, 1908, No. 3, p 377-445.
Gustav Mie: Beiträge zur Optik trüber Medien, speziell kolloidaler Metallösungen. Annalen der Physik, Vierte Folge, Band 25, 1908, No. 3, p 377-445.
Gustav Mie: Contributions to the optics of turbid media, particularly of colloidal metal solutions. Royal Aircraft Establishment, Library Translation 1873, 1976, RAE-Lit-Trans-1873.
Gustav Mie: Contributions on the optics of turbid media, particularly colloidal metal solutions --- Translation. Sandia Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1978, SAND78-6018. National Translation Center, Chicago, ILL, Translation 79-21946.
Gustav Mie: Consideraciones sobre la óptica de los medios turbios, especialmente soluciones coloidales; Traducción: Arturo Quirantes Sierra (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
typos in the original text found by Arturo Quirantes Sierra (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

Papers on Gustav Mie and Mie's theory

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Harry Bateman: The mathematical analysis of electrical and optical wave-motion on the basis of Maxwell's equations. Cambridge University Press, 1915. (PDF, DjVu, TXT available).
Ghanshyam A. Shah: Numerical methods for Mie theory of scattering by a sphere. Kodalkenel Obs. Bull. Ser. A (1977) 2, 42-63.
Pedro Lilienfeld: Gustav Mie the person. Applied Optics 30 (1991), 4696-4698.
Siegmar Adomßent: Des Landes große Physiker. Traditio et Innovatio 10 (2005) 2, 41-42.
Wolfram Hergert: Gustav Mie und Albert Einstein. Diskussion zur Entwicklung der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie. scientia halensis (2005) 3, 13-14.
Werner Marx: Dornröschen und Mauerblümchen. Nachzügler und vergessene Arbeiten in der Physik. Phys. Unserer Zeit 38 (2007) 1, 34-39.
Gustav Mie, catalogus professorum halensis.
Uwe Kreibig: Mie gilt fast nie: Grenzen und Erweiterungen der Theorie von Mie.
Ehrenmitglieder der DPG
ALBERT-LUDWIGS-UNIVERSITÄT FREIBURG IM BREISGAU VORLESUNGSVERZEICHNIS für das Winterhalbjahr 1934/35.
Leo Corry: From Mie's Electromagnetic Theory of Matter to Hilbert's Unified Foundation of Physics. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 30(2): 159-183 (1999).
Helmut Spehl: Mie, Gustav Adolf Feodor Wilhelm Ludwig, Physiker in Berd Ottnad (Hrsg.): Badische Biographien, Neue Folge, Band III, W. Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart, 1990, S. 186-190.
Kuo-Nan Liou: A Complementary Theory of Light Scattering by Homogeneous Spheres. Applied Mathematics and Computation 3 (1977), 331-358.
Uwe Kreibig: Optische Eigenschaften von Nanopartikeln, Hundert Jahre Mie-Theorie. Phys. Unserer Zeit 39 (2008) 6, 281-286.
Uwe Kreibig: Hundert Jahre Mie-Theorie. Ergänzungen.
Thomas Wriedt: Mie Theory 1908-2008, Introduction to the conference. In T. Wriedt, W. Hergert (editors): Mie Theory 1908-2008. Present developments and interdisciplinary aspects of light scattering. Universität Bremen, Bremen 2008. 17-21.
Thomas Wriedt: Mie theory 1908, on the mobile phone 2008. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer 109 (2008), 1543–1548. FnattLabME including Mie scattering application
Hergert, Wolfram; Wriedt, Thomas (Eds.): The Mie Theory Basics and Applications, Springer Series in Optical Sciences, 2012.
Alan Rawle:The life of Gustav Mie and the development of the Lorenz-Mie solution to Maxwell’s equations.
Brian Stout and Nicolas Bonod: Gustav Mie: the man, the theory. Photonique, 2020.
Manuel Nieto-Vesperinas: Fundamentals of Mie scattering in Dielectric Metamaterials 2020, Pages 39-72.

Web pages

Mie Translation Project by Arturo Quirantes Sierra (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Historic Papers
A Short History of Physics in Greifswald
Mathematics Genealogy Project, Gustav Mie
Gustav-Mie-Haus, Hochhaus der Fakultät für Physik, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau

Wikipedia pages

Contact and more information
Thomas Wriedt

Mie theory 100 years

Manuel Nieto-Vesperinas: Fundamentals of Mie scattering in Dielectric Metamaterials 2020, Pages 39-72.