Eilhard Wiedemann (physicist)
Eilhard Ernst Gustav Wiedemann (born August 1, 1852 in Berlin ; † January 7, 1928 in Erlangen ) was a German physicist .
Wiedemann had been a private lecturer in Leipzig since 1876, associate professor in Leipzig in 1878 and professor of physics at the University of Erlangen in 1886, after having previously been professor in Darmstadt in 1886 . For a long time since 1877 he edited the supplements to the annals of physics and chemistry together with his father, Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann . In 1887 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . From 1885 to 1886 he was an extraordinary member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences .
Eilhard Wiedemann had a wide range of interests, so he also worked on topics from the history of science , especially the Arabs (for example with his assistant Friedrich Hauser on clocks in medieval Islam).
In 1891 Wiedemann became the father of the later forest professor of the same name, Eilhard Wiedemann . In 1919 the Erlangen student association AMV Fridericiana made him an honorary member.
His estate is kept in the Deutsches Museum in Munich .
Fonts
- Essays on the history of Arab science , 2 volumes, Hildesheim 1970
- Collected writings on the history of Arab-Islamic science , Frankfurt am Main 1986
Web links
- Literature by and about Eilhard Wiedemann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Overview of the lectures of Eilhard Wiedemann (physicist) at the University of Leipzig (summer semester 1876 to summer semester 1886)
- Eilhard Wiedemann (physicist) in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of members Leopoldina, Eilhard Wiedemann (with picture)
- ^ Members of the SAW: Eilhard Wiedemann. Saxon Academy of Sciences, accessed on December 13, 2016 .
- ^ A b Karl Eduard Haas: The Academic-Musical Association Fridericana in the Sondershäuser Association, formerly the student choir in Erlangen . Erlangen 1982, self-published, p. 395
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SURNAME | Wiedemann, Eilhard |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wiedemann, Eilhard Ernst Gustav (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 1, 1852 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
DATE OF DEATH | January 7, 1928 |
Place of death | gain |