Wilhelm Giese (physicist)

Wilhelm Giese (born May 27, 1847 in Kolberg , Pomerania ; †?) Was a German physicist and polar researcher.

Life

Giese studied mathematics and physics from 1868 to 1873 at the University of Zurich and at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . From 1875 to 1877 he was a teacher at the Joachimsthal School in Berlin. He then became an assistant to Hermann von Helmholtz . In 1880 he presented his dissertation with the title On the course of the residue formation in Leyden bottles with a constant potential difference of the occupancies . The Giese element he used , a form of the Daniell element in which a thin glass wall serves as a diaphragm, can be regarded as the forerunner of the glass electrode .

Giese also examined the conductivity of gases and plasmas . He was the first to recognize that electrical conduction in hot gases and flames can be traced back to the movement of ions .

In 1882/1883 he led the German expedition to Kinguafjord ( Baffin Island ) as part of the First International Polar Year .

Works

• Experimental contributions to the knowledge of the electrical conductivity of the flame gases . In: Annalen der Physik , 17, 1882, pp. 1–41 , 236–256 , 519–549 .
• Principles of a unified theory of electricity management . In: Annalen der Physik , 37, 1889, pp. 576-609.

literature

• Fritz Scholz: Giese, Wilhelm . In: Allen J. Bard, Gyürgy Inzelt, Fritz Scholz (eds.): Electrochemical Dictionary . Springer, Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-642-29551-5 , pp. 415–416 ( limited preview in Google Book search).