Ernst Pringsheim
German physicist

Ernst Pringsheim

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German physicist
A.K.A.
Ernst Pringsheim Sr.
Gender:
Male
Places:
Germany
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ProfessorEducatorScientistPhysicistMathematicianPhysician
Work field:
AcademiaHealthcareMathematicsScience
Birth:
11 July 1859(Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, Kingdom of Poland)
Death:
28 June 1917(Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, Kingdom of Poland)
Star sign:
Cancer
Education:
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Berlin, Margraviate of Brandenburg, Germany
Employers:
Charles University
Prague, Duchy of Bohemia, Czech Republic
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Berlin, Margraviate of Brandenburg, Germany
University of Wrocław
Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
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Ernst Pringsheim Sr. (11 July 1859 – 28 June 1917) was a German physicist. He was born and died in Breslau. Alongside Otto Lummer, he conducted significant measurements of the blackbody radiation spectrum, leading to Max Planck's quantum hypothesis in 1900.

Literary works

  • Ueber das Radiometer. Berlin: Lange, 1882. Berlin, Universität, Dissertation, 1882.
  • Eine Wellenlängenmessung im ultrarothen Sonnenspectrum. In: Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Neue Folge, Band XVIII, (1883).
  • (with Otto Lummer:) A Determination of the ratio k of the specific heat for air, oxygen, carbon-dioxide and hydrogen. (= Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge; 29,6 = 1126 Hodgkins Fund) Washington : Smithsonian Inst., 1898.
  • Vorlesungen über die Physik der Sonne. Leipzig: Teubner, 1910.
  • Fluoreszenz und Phosphoreszenz im Lichte der neueren Atomtheorie, 1928.