Friedrich Degen (physicist)

August Friedrich Ernst Degen (born June 9, 1802 in Ludwigsburg , † April 2, 1850 in Stuttgart ) was a German physicist , chemist and geologist ( Bergrat ).

Degen embarked on a higher mining career in Württemberg, for which he also studied three semesters from 1821 at the State Economics Faculty in Tübingen. From 1829 he was professor of physics and chemistry at the trade school in Stuttgart. There he also taught analytical and practical geometry.

He was a member of the Bergkollegium and since 1842 an extraordinary member of the Royal Academic Council in Stuttgart.

He published many analyzes of mineral waters in Württemberg, about networkability, an improved reflection goniometer and the behavior of coal against light.

Fonts

• Via a eudiometer in which the formation of water is effected by an unmixed platinum sponge. In: Annalen der Physik und Chemie 27 (1833), pp. 557-560 No. XIX.
• Improvement on the reflection goniometer. In: Annalen der Physik und Chemie 27 (1833), pp. 687-688 No. XIV.
• About the behavior of coal against light. In: Annalen der Physik und Chemie 35 (1835), pp. 468-471 No. V.
• Experiments on the networkability of the surfaces of different bodies. In: Annalen der Physik und Chemie 38 (1836), pp. 449-455 No. XXI.

literature

• Biography in: Manfred Koschling, Paul Gehring, Die Bibliothek der Technische Hochschule Stuttgart, 1962, p. 203
• Karl-Heinz Böttcher, Bertram Maurer, Klaus Wendel: Stuttgart Mathematicians: History of Mathematics at the University of Stuttgart from 1829 to 1945 in Biographies, Publications of the University Archives Stuttgart 2, 2008
• Art. Sword, August Friedrich Ernst . In: Johann Christian Poggendorff : Biographical-literary concise dictionary for the history of the exact sciences . Vol. 1. Leipzig 1863, Col. 536.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information from Poggendorff