Josef Meixner

For the Austrian Olympic shooter, see Josef Meixner (sport shooter).

Josef Meixner
Born	(1908-04-24)24 April 1908 Percha, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire
Died	19 March 1994(1994-03-19) (aged 85) Aachen, Germany
Education	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Known for	Meixner distribution Meixner polynomials Meixner–Pollaczek polynomials
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Workplaces	University of Giessen Humboldt University of Berlin RWTH Aachen University
Thesis	Die Greensche Funktion des wellenmechanischen Keplerproblems  (1931)
Doctoral advisor	Arnold Sommerfeld

Josef Meixner (24 April 1908 – 19 March 1994) was a German theoretical physicist, known for his work on the physics of deformable bodies, thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, Meixner polynomials, Meixner–Pollaczek polynomials, and spheroidal wave functions.