Wilhelm von Bezold
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm von Bezold | |
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Bezold-Brücke shift |
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm von Bezold (June 21, 1837 – February 17, 1907)[1] was a German physicist and meteorologist born in Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria. He is best known for discovering the Bezold effect and the Bezold–Brücke shift.
Bezold studied mathematics and physics at the
Bavarian Academy of Sciences
.
From 1885 to 1907 director of the
electrical storms
.
Bezold was one of the early researchers of
air as it is lifted, expands, cools, and eventually condenses and precipitates its water vapor
.
It was Bezold's investigations of
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz during his attempt to physically validate Maxwell's mathematical analysis of electromagnetic waves.[2]
References
- ^ Biographie, Deutsche. "Bezold, Wilhelm von - Deutsche Biographie". www.deutsche-biographie.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-08-31.
- ^ Heinrich Hertz "Electric waves: being researches on the propagation of electric action with finite velocity through space"
- W. von Bezold, Zur Thermodynamik der Atmosphäre. Pts. I, II. Sitz. K. Preuss. Akad. Wissensch. Berlin, pp. 485–522, 1189–1206; Gesammelte Abhandlugen, pp. 91–144. English translation by Abbe, C. The mechanics of the Earth's atmosphere. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, no 843, 1893, 212–242.
External links
Wilhelm von Bezold (1876) The theory of color and its relation to art and art-industry... translated from the German by S. R. Koehler - digital facsimile from the Linda Hall Library
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