James Moser

James Moser (born March 11, 1852 in Berlin , † September 23, 1908 in Vienna ) was a German-Austrian physicist .

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James Moser studied in Berlin , which he received in 1876 with the Dr. phil. completed. In 1884 he completed his habilitation in physics, including physical chemistry , at the University of Vienna . In the years 1884 to 1891 Moser acted as assistant to Johann Josef Loschmidt and represented him in the pharmaceutical lectures .

James Moser repeated Heinrich Hertz's fundamental experiments on electromagnetic waves in Vienna . As a lecturer, he was just as popular in the university sector - for example in physics lectures for physicians and philosophers - as in popular scientific circles. Since 1879 he belonged to the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina in Halle (Saale) .

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• About the Torricellian teaching. In: Annals of Physics and Chemistry. 1877
• The Spectra of Chemical Compounds. In: Annals of Physics and Chemistry. 1877
• Electrostatic investigations, especially on the branching of induction in the differential inductometer and electrophorus. In: Meeting reports of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. Mathematics and science class. Volume 83, Division 2, 1881.
• Electrical and thermal properties of salt solutions. In: Meeting reports of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. Mathematics and science class. Volume 92, Division 2, 1886.
• Electrical oscillations in air-diluted rooms without electrodes. In: Meeting reports of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. Mathematics and science class. Volume 99, Division 2a, 1891.
• How is it easy to represent and imagine positive electricity with negative potential and negative electricity with positive potential? In: Festschrift dedicated to Ludwig Boltzmann on the occasion of his 60th birthday. 1904.

literature

• Neue Freie Presse from September 24th and 27th, 1908
• Ceremonial inauguration 1908/09
• Ludwig Eisenberg: The spiritual Vienna. Volume 2, 1893.
• H. Zemanek:  Moser James. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7 , p. 387.