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Agnes Luise Wilhelmine Pockels was a German citizen scientist in chemistry, whose research was fundamental in establishing the modern discipline known as surface science, which describes the properties of liquid and solid surfaces and interfaces.
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science · German chemist (1862–1935) · physicist · chemist · also Agnes Pockels, Agnes Luise Wilhelmine Pockels, Pockels
Born 14 February 1862 · Died 21 November 1935 · Q7249
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I had a passionate interest in natural science, especially physics, and would have liked to study“.. Pockels studied science at home while caring for her parents. Pockels
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“I thought I ought not to withhold from you these facts which I have observed, although I am not a professional physicist; and again begging you to excuse my boldness, I remain, with sincere respect, Yours faithfully, (signed) Agnes Pockels”
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“I had a passionate interest in natural science, especially physics, and would have liked to study“.. Pockels studied science at home while caring for her parents. Pockels”
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Died 1935-11-21.
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Pockels died in 1935 in Brunswick, Germany, in the town where she had lived for the duration of her career.
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In Brunswick, Germany, in the town where she had lived for the duration of her career
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German colloid chemist Wolfgang Ostwald published a biography of Pockels
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For his work in investigating monolayers on solids and on liquids, part of his achievement was [
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Awarded Laura R. Leonard Prize (1931).
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Together with Henri Devaux, Pockels received the Laura R
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“The measurement of surface tension with the balance”
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And her own ill health, Agnes Pockels lost contact with many professional scientists and ceased to undertake original research
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Approximately ten years after Pockels' first surface tension measurements, through her brother Friedrich Pockels, she became aware that Lord Rayleigh was publishing studies of the effect of small amounts of oils on the s
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“My Lord, – Will you kindly excuse my venturing to trouble you with a German letter on a scientific subject? Having heard of the fruitful researches carried on by you last year on the hitherto little understood properties of water surfaces, I thought it might interest you to know of my own observations on the subject. For various reasons I am not in a position to publish them in scientific periodicals, and I therefore adopt this means of communicating to you the most important of them.”
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To Brunswick, which was part of the nascent German Empire
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Born 1862-02-14.
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My Lord, – Will you kindly excuse my venturing to trouble you with a German letter on a scientific subject? Having heard of the fruitful researches carried on by you last year on the hitherto little understood properties of water surfaces, I thought it might interest you to know of my own observations on the subject. For various reasons I am not in a position to publish them in scientific periodicals, and I therefore adopt this means of communicating to you the most important of them.
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