Wilhelm von Beetz

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Grave of Wilhelm von Beetz in the old northern cemetery in Munich

Wilhelm von Beetz (born March 27, 1822 in Berlin , †  January 22, 1886 in Munich ) was a German physicist .

Career

He was the youngest son of the geography teacher at the Berlin Cadet Corps Friedrich Beetz. From 1840 he studied physics and chemistry at the Physiological University in Berlin. Then he was initially a private lecturer in Berlin . From 1843 he was a physics teacher in the cadet house and assistant to Magnus. In 1849 he completed his habilitation and from 1850 was professor of physics at the cadet corps and at the artillery and engineering school in Berlin. In 1855 he went to Bern as a professor and in 1858 to Erlangen .

In 1845 Beetz was instrumental in founding the Physical Society . In 1868 Beetz finally became a professor at the Technical University of Munich . Since 1872 he was a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1873 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina Scholars' Academy . From 1874 to 1877 he was director of the Polytechnic and received personal nobility in 1876 . He had been a member of the Munich Casual Society since 1870 . In 1874 he and Klein pushed through the appointment of Alexander von Brill as a mathematics professor against the resistance of the old, influential director Carl Maximilian Bauernfeind. His main field of work was electricity, where he was particularly interested in conduction processes and improved numerous physical apparatus. He studied the conductivity of liquids and confirmed that it increases with temperature.

Works

  • Guide to Physics . Leipzig (11th edition, 1893)
  • About galvanic dry elements and their application to electrometric and galvanometric measurements ; 1885, 16 pages
  • Official report on the International Electricity Exhibition that took place in the royal glass palace in Munich in 1882 under the protectorate of His Majesty King Ludwig II of Bavaria, combined with electrotechnical experiments ; Autotypie-Verlag, 1882 244 pages, 1883 398 pages
  • Basics of electricity theory: ten lectures . Stuttgart (1878)
  • About the electrochemical process on an aluminum anode ; 1877
  • About the electromotive force and the internal resistance of some thermopiles ; 1877, 3 pages
  • "About the Cohesion of Salt Solutions" by G. Quincke ; 1876
  • Heer Beetz presents and discusses a treatise by Wilhelm von Bezold "About the double maximum in the frequency of thunderstorms during the summer months." ; 1875, 19 pages
  • The participation of the Bavarian Academy in the development of the theory of electricity ; 1873, 31 pages
  • About warmth: a lecture given in the Scientific Association on January 28, 1854 ; Schneider, 1854, 39 pages
  • About magnetism: a lecture given in the Scientific Association on March 13, 1852 ; Berlin, G. Reimer, 1852, 27 pages
  • The progress of galvanism in the years 1837-1847 ; Dove's Report of Physics; Berlin, Veit & Comp., 1849

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member entry by Wilhelm von Beetz (with a link to an obituary) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on January 6, 2017.
  2. ↑ Informal Society: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Informal Society Munich 1837-1987 , University printing and publishing house Dr. C. Wolf and Son KG, Munich 1987, 159 pages
  3. ^ Walther von Dyck (1856-1934): Mathematics, technology and scientific organization at the TH Munich in the Google book search

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personal data
SURNAME Beetz, Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1886
Place of death Munich