Viktor Pierre

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Viktor Pierre, painting made posthumously in 1893 by Wenzel Ottokar Noltsch

Viktor Pierre (born December 19, 1819 in Vienna ; † October 29, 1886 there ) was an Austrian physicist and university professor . He was rector of the Vienna University of Technology .

Life

Viktor Pierre studied philosophy at the University of Vienna from 1836 to 1838 , and medicine from 1838 to 1843. In 1844 he graduated as Dr. med. and in 1846 Dr. phil. From 1844 he was assistant ( adjunct ) of the teaching posts in mathematics and physics, from 1848 he was active as a substitute teacher ( supplent ) of physics and adjunct to the teaching posts in mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna and in Klagenfurt .

From 1851 he was professor of physics at the Technical Academy in Lviv , in 1853 he was appointed full professor at the University of Lwów , and in 1857 at the University of Prague . In 1866 he was appointed full professor at the Imperial and Royal Polytechnic Institute in Vienna, where he was dean of the chemical-technical school from 1868/69 to 1869/70. In the academic year 1873/74 Viktor Pierre was elected Rector of the Technical University . During his term of office, after the Starke & Kammerer workshop had been vacated in August 1873, the rooms that became vacant were adapted for the chair for general and technical physics.

From 1861 Pierre was a real member of the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences in Prague. In 1884 he was involved in setting up his own chair for electrical engineering at the Vienna University of Technology and applied for the establishment of a laboratory based on the model of Germany's first electrical engineering chair at the Technical University in Darmstadt. He constructed various devices for demonstration purposes, such as an apparatus to demonstrate the laws of tensile elasticity , an apparatus to illustrate the formation of a longitudinal wave and a galvanoscope for lecture experiments .

Publications (selection)

  • 1849: About the elasticity maximum of the vapors in the air , Sbb. Wien, math.-nat. Class 2
  • 1850: Some remarks on magnetic and diamagnetic phenomena , Sbb. Wien, math.-nat. Class 4
  • 1854/55: Contribution to the theory of Gaugain. Tangentenboussole , Sbb. Vienna, math.-nat. Kl. 13 and in the annals of physics and chemistry 169
  • 1857: Contribution to the knowledge of the ozone and the ozone content of the atmospheric air , together with J. Pless, Sbb. Vienna, math.-nat. Class 22
  • 1860: About the Bourdon. Metal barometer , in: Treatises of the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences, F. 5, 11
  • 1861: Something about the line resistance of drippable liquid conductors , Sbb. Of the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences, part 1
  • 1862: About the use of fluorescence phenomena for the detection of fluorescent substances in mixtures , Sbb. Of the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences, Part 2
  • 1866: About the heat radiation caused by fluorescence , Sbb. Wien, math.-nat. Class 53. Section 2 and in the Annals of Physics and Chemistry 204

literature

personal data
SURNAME Pierre, Viktor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian physicist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1886
Place of death Vienna