Albert von Ettingshausen
Albert von Ettingshausen (born March 30, 1850 in Vienna , † June 9, 1932 in Graz ) was an Austrian physicist .
Life
Albert Konstantin Karl Josef von Ettingshausen was the first of two children of Karl von Ettingshausen and Friederike Ettingshausen, nee. Cold smith, born. His uncle Andreas von Ettingshausen and his cousin Constantin von Ettingshausen were also scientists.
After studying physics and doing his doctorate, he was Ludwig Boltzmann's assistant at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz . During his extraordinary professorship in 1886 at the Physics Institute, together with Walther Nernst, he discovered some galvanometric and thermomagnetic effects ( Ettingshausen effect , Ettingshausen-Nernst effect ). For a doctorate on this subject, Nernst switched to Friedrich Kohlrausch at the University of Würzburg.
In 1888, as the successor to Jakob Pöschl, he was offered the chair of physics in the new building of the Physics Institute of the Graz University of Technology . By his retirement in 1920 he expanded the chair to become the "Chair for Physics and Electrical Engineering". His successor was Fritz Kohlrausch in 1920 .
Since 1884 he was a member of the Leopoldina . From 1888 to 1890 he was dean of the technical university.
literature
- Klaus Höllbacher: Albert von Ettingshausen (1850-1932). 1994 (Dissertation, University of Graz, 1994).
Individual evidence
- ^ TH Graz - Chair for Experimental Physics
- ^ Prof. Albert von Ettingshausen (1850-1938) ( Memento from November 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ TH Graz History of Physics
- ^ Rectors and deans of TH Graz
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ettingshausen, Albert von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 30, 1850 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 9, 1932 |
| Place of death | Graz |