Erik Edlund

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Erik Edlund

Erik Edlund (born March 14, 1819 in the parish Edsberg, Lekeberg parish , † August 19, 1888 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish physicist and meteorologist .

Life

Edlund studied mathematics and physics at Uppsala University from 1840 and wrote his dissertation in 1845 under Svanberg. He then went to the University of Leipzig to study with Wilhelm Eduard Weber for two years . Edlund then worked in Uppsala as a private lecturer before he was appointed professor of physics by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1850 . In 1871 Edlund became chairman of the directorate for the Royal Stockholm University of Technology . In the elections for the Swedish Reichstag in 1872, Edlund won the seat for the city of Stockholm.

In 1858, at Edlund's suggestion, meteorological observation stations were introduced in Sweden. The subsequent observations were under his direction until 1873 and were seamlessly continued by the newly established central meteorological institute. Edlund published his observations in 14 volumes, which were edited at the expense of the Academy of Sciences.

As a researcher, Edlund has mainly dealt with the theory of electricity and wrote about 70 treatises on it, which have appeared in the writings of the Academy of Sciences, in the Annals of Physics and Chemistry , in the Philosophical Magazine and the Annales de Chimie et de Physique . He also worked on the movement of liquids and the polarization of light. Among other things, he described a possibility of simultaneously exchanging electrical signals via a line. Edlund is known as Svante Arrhenius' doctoral supervisor . In 1866 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and in 1882 a member of the Leopoldina . From 1870 he was a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg .

literature

  • Erik Edlund . In: Herman Hofberg, Frithiof Heurlin, Viktor Millqvist, Olof Rubenson (eds.): Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon . 2nd Edition. tape 1 : A-K . Albert Bonniers Verlag, Stockholm 1906, p. 268 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 73.
  2. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Erik Edlund. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed November 13, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Edlund, Erik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish physicist, meteorologist and politician, member of the Riksdag
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Parish Edsberg, Lekeberg (municipality)
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 1888
Place of death Stockholm