Heinrich Wilhelm Dove
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Heinrich Wilhelm Dove (6 October 1803 – 4 April 1879) was a Prussian physicist and meteorologist.
Early years
Dove was born in
In 1845 he became a Professor ordinarius at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin, where he was elected rector in 1858–1859, and again in 1871–1872. In 1849 he also became the director of the Prussian Meteorological Institute.
During his career he published more than 300 papers, some of which delved into experimental physics. He also had an important influence over the science of meteorology, and was considered by some to be a pioneer in this field; Dove's primary meteorological focus was in climatology, a field pioneered by Alexander von Humboldt.
In 1828, Dove observed that
In 1839 he discovered the technique of
In 1841 he published an invention he called the "differential inductor".[1] It was a 4 coil induction balance, with 2 glass tubes each having 2 well insulated copper wire solenoids wound around them. Charged Leyden jars (high voltage capacitors) were discharged through the 2 primary coils, this current surge induced a voltage in the secondary coils.[2] When the secondary coils were wired in opposition the induced voltages cancelled as confirmed by the Professor holding the ends of the secondary coils. When a piece of metal was placed inside one glass tube the Professor received a shock. This then was the first magnetic induction metal detector, and the first pulse induction metal detector.
He also studied the distribution of
Affiliations and honors
- Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society, 1850
- Member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences, 1837
- Recipient of the Copley Medal, 1853
- Foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1861[3]
- Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Dove Bay in Greenland is named after him.
- The crater Dove on the Moon is named after him.
- In Optics, the Dove prism is named for him.
References
- ^ "Ueber die durch Magnetisiren des Eisens vermittelst Reibungselektricität inducirten Ströme", H. W. Dove, Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 1841 series 2 vol 54, page 305.
- ^ "Influence that is exercised upon Induction by metal Masses", Auguste de la Rive, A Treatise on Electricity in Theory and Practice, 1853 vol I, page 424.
- ^ "H.W. Dove (1803–1879)". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
External links
- An 1857 photographic portrait of H. W. Dove as a middle-aged man
- A photographic portrait of H. W. Dove as an older man (photograph credit: Loescher & Petsch)
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