| The son
of a university professor of theology, so grew in a scientific
environment, enters 1822 at Halle and presents his graduation in
1826 (1).
Wrote in a 1824 treaty on the waves together with his brother Ernst
Heinrich, known physiologist, collaborated with the other brother
Eduard Friedrich for the study of walking. In
1828 access to the chair of
physics at the University of Halle, after three years gets to teach
Gottiga to abandon for political reasons (In 1837 Queen Victoria of
Britain becomes his uncle rises to the throne of Hanover withdrawal and
the establishment liberal along with Weber seven other teachers to
protest the abolition of the constitution)
(2). After a few years is a professor of physics at
Leipzig (1843) and in 1849 to teach regains Gottiga. worked with Carl Friedrich
Gauss study
of geomagnetism Leipzig and worked on instrumentation measures
for electricity, especially for electronic dynamo meter for absolute
measures. In 1850 became member of the Royal Society. |
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