Theodor Kaluza

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Kaluza was born to a Roman Catholic family from the town of Ratibor in the German Empire's Prussian Province of Silesia. Kaluza himself was born in Oppeln. He spent his youth in Konigsberg, where his father, Max Kaluza, was a professor of the English language. He entered the University of Konigsberg to study mathematics and gained his doctorate with a thesis on Tschirnhaus transformations. Kaluza was primarily a mathematician but began studying relativity. In April 1919 Kaluza noticed that when he solved Albert Einstein's equations for general relativity using five dimensions, then James Clark Maxwell's equations for electromagnetism emerged spontaneously. Kaluza wrote to Einstein who, in turn, encouraged him to publish. Kaluza's theory was published in 1921 in a paper, "Zum Unitatsproblem der Physik" with Einstein's support in Sitzungsberichte Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften 96, 69.