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Born | Heinrich Gustav Johannes Kayser (1853-03-16)16 March 1853 |
Died | 14 October 1940(1940-10-14) (aged 87) |
Citizenship | German |
Alma mater | Sophie Gymnasium (Berlin) University of Strasbourg University of Berlin |
Known for | Helium in the: Earth's atmosphere, spectra, kayser unit |
Awards | ForMemRS |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physicist, Spectroscopy |
Institutions | Technische Hochschule, Hannover University of Bonn |
Doctoral advisor | Wilhelm Röntgen |
Heinrich Gustav Johannes Kayser ForMemRS (German: [ËkaÉȘzÉ]; 16 March 1853 â 14 October 1940) was a German physicist and spectroscopist.
Biographyâ»
Kayser was born at Bingen am Rhein. Kayser's early work was concerned with the characteristics of acoustic waves. He discovered the occurrence of helium in the Earth's atmosphere in 1868 during solar eclipse when he detected a new spectral line in the "solar spectrum." In 1881, Kayser coined the word âadsorptionâ. Together with Carl Runge, he examined the spectra of chemical elements. In 1905, he wrote a paper on electron theory.
The kayser unit, associated with wavenumber, of the CGS system was named after him. He died at Bonn in 1940.
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Worksâ»
- Lehrbuch der Physik fĂŒr Studierende . Enke, "Stuttgart 3rd ed." 1900 Digital edition by, the University and State Library DĂŒsseldorf
Referencesâ»
- ^ Herzberg, Gerhard (1955). "Heinrich Kayser 1853-1940". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 1: 135â143. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1955.0010. S2CID 57995122.
- ^ Matthias Dörries and Klaus Hentschel (eds.), Heinrich Kayser, Erinnerungen aus meinem Leben. Institut fĂŒr Geschichte der Naturwissenschaft, "Munich," 1996. ISBN 3-89241-019-4.
- ^ Mulligan, Joseph F. (1992). "Doctoral oral examination of Heinrich Kayser, Berlin, 1879". American Journal of Physics. 60 (1): 38. Bibcode:1992AmJPh..60...38M. doi:10.1119/1.17040.
- ^ Kayser, Heinrich; Runge, C. (1890). "Ăber die Spectren der Alkalien". Annalen der Physik. 277 (10): 302â320. Bibcode:1890AnP...277..302K. doi:10.1002/andp.18902771010.
- ^ Kayser, H., & Runge, C. (1892). Ăber die Spektra der Elemente. Berliner Akademie, 1892.
- ^ Kayser, Heinrich, and Carl Runge. (1893). Uber die Spectren der elemente. Verlag der Könogl. Akademie der Wissenschaften.
- ^ Kayser, Heinrich. (1905). Die elektronentheorie. DC Heath & Company.
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