Carl Barus

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Carl Barus (front row, 2nd from right), 1886

Carl Barus (born February 19, 1856 in Cincinnati , USA , † September 20, 1935 in Providence , USA) was an American physicist .

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Barus was born the son of German immigrants (musicians Carl Barus Senior and Sophie nee Möllmann) and went to Woodward High School in Cincinnati, which he graduated with William Howard Taft in 1874 . After studying mining science for two years , he moved to Würzburg to study physics . In 1876 he became a member of the Arminia Würzburg fraternity . In 1879 he received his doctorate summa cum laude under Friedrich Kohlrausch .

In 1887 he married Annie Gertrude Howes, with whom he had two children, Maxwell and Deborah. In 1890 Barus was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 1892 he became a member of the American Philosophical Society and the National Academy of Sciences .

In 1903 he was appointed dean of Brown University's graduate department, which he directed from his Wilson Hall office. He held this office until his retirement in 1926. Because of his many contributions, the department had by then become large enough to become a separate school within the university. In 1905 he became a corresponding member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science and an honorary member of the Royal Institution of Great Britain . In the same year he became a member of the First International Congress of Radiology and Electricity in Brussels . In 1905 he also became a member of the physico-medical law firm Erlangen and president of the American Physical Society . In 1906 he became a member of the advisory board of physics at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC

He was the great-uncle of Kurt Vonnegut .

Honors

Publications (selection)

  • The thermoelectrical position and the electrical conductivity of the steel as a function of the hardening. Dissertation University of Würzburg 1879, Leipzig 1879.

literature

  • Axel W.-O. Schmidt: An American in Würzburg: How Carl Barus became a member of the Würzburg fraternity Arminia in 1876. In: Tempora mutantur et nos? Festschrift for Walter M. Brod on his 95th birthday. With contributions from friends, companions and contemporaries. Edited by Andreas Mettenleiter , Akamedon, Pfaffenhofen 2007 (= From Würzburgs Stadt- und Universitätsgeschichte, 2), ISBN 3-940072-01-X , pp. 297-307.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934, p. 20.
  2. ↑ Biography (English)

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personal data
SURNAME Barus, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Cincinnati , USA
DATE OF DEATH September 20, 1935
Place of death Providence , USA