Carl Fromme (physicist)

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Carl Friedrich Ferdinand Fromme (born June 11, 1852 in Kassel , † February 13, 1945 in Gießen ) was a German physicist , mathematician , geodesist and university professor .

Life

A native of Kassel Carl Fromme, the son of a middle-officials from the Hessian government service, he studied after high school mathematics, physics and descriptive natural sciences at the University of Marburg , four semesters later he moved to the Georg-August-University of Goettingen , where in 1873 his Doctorate to Dr. phil. He then took up a position as a research assistant at the local Institute of Physics, 1875 habilitated himself as a lecturer for the subjects theoretical physics and geodesy.

In 1880 Carl Fromme received the extraordinary chair for theoretical physics and geodesy at the suggestion of the physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, who was then working at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen , and he was also appointed institute director there. He was promoted to full professor in 1894 and retired in 1925 . Carl Fromme published numerous research articles on electricity and magnetism , mostly in the annals of physics .

Carl Fromme was married to Henriette, born Bandmann, who came from a wealthy bourgeois family in Göttingen . From this marriage there were four children, including Albert Fromme , who is considered one of the last universal surgeons . Carl Fromme died very old in February 1945 in Giessen.

Fonts

  • The magnetization function of a ball made of soft iron for strong magnetizing forces, inaugural dissertation , Gotthelft, Kassel, 1874
  • Magnetic and electrical investigations, in: Annalen der Physik, Leipzig, 1877
  • About the constant chains of Bunsen, Grove and Daniell, in: Annalen der Physik, Leipzig, 1879
  • Forest surveying, in: Lorey's Handbuch der Forstwissenschaft, 3., Laupp, Tübingen, 1903

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personal data
SURNAME Fromme, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fromme, Carl Friedrich Ferdinand (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist, mathematician, geodesist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1945
Place of death to water