Wilhelm von Beetz
Wilhelm von Beetz | |
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2nd Director of the Polytechnische Schule München | |
In office 1874–1877 | |
Preceded by | Karl Maximilian von Bauernfeind |
Succeeded by | August von Kluckhohn |
Personal details | |
Born | Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia | 27 March 1822
Died | 22 January 1886 Munich, German Empire | (aged 63)
Nationality | German |
Wilhelm von Beetz (27 March 1822 – 22 January 1886) was a German
electrical conductivity properties.[1]
Von Beetz was born in Berlin. He studied physics, chemistry and physiology in the
Erlangen (from 1858). In 1868 he became a professor at the Technical University of Munich, where in 1874 to 1877 he was director.[2][1][3]
In 1845, he was co-founder of Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. In 1869 he became a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, and in 1882 was named president of the Internationalen Elektrizitäts-Ausstellung (International Electricity Exposition) in Munich.[1][2] He died in Munich
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Published works
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He best known work was Leitfaden der Physik (4th edition, 1872), a textbook of physics that was published over numerous editions.[4] Other noted writings by Beetz include:
- Ueber Magnetismus (1852) – On magnetism.
- Ueber den electrochemischen Vorgang an einer Aluminiumanode (1877) – On the electrochemical process of an aluminum anode.
- Grundzüge der Elektrizitätslehre: zehn Vorlesungen (1878) – Principles of electrical theory.
- Ueber galvanische Trockenelemente und deren Anwendung zu elektrometrischen und galvanometrischen Messungen (1885) – On galvanic dry cells and their application to electrometric and galvanometric measurements.[5]
References
- ^ a b c Electrochemical Dictionary edited by Allen J. Bard, György Inzelt, Fritz Scholz
- ^ a b Beetz, Friedrich Wilhelm Hubert von (seit 1876) In: Neue Deutsche Biographie
- ^ Aachen - Braniß / edited by Rudolf Vierhaus Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopaedie
- ^ Leitfaden der Physik HathiTrust Digital Library
- ^ Wilhelm von Beetz de.Wikisource (bibliography)