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August Kundt
August Adolf Eduard Eberhard Kundt was a German physicist known for developing Kundt's tube, an appartus used to measure the speed of sound in gases and solids.
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science · German physicist (1839–1894) · physicist · university teacher · also August Kundt, August Adolf Eduard Eberhard Kundt, Kundt
Born 18 November 1839 · Died 21 May 1894 · Q60554
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Published “A Pooled Analysis of Bone Marrow Micrometastasis in Breast Cancer” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 1,146 times.
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1894· 1 entry
Died 1894-05-21.
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1888· 1 entry
Kundt returned to Berlin as successor to Hermann von Helmholtz in the Chair of Experimental Physics and the Directorship of the Berlin Physical Institute
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1877· 1 entry
Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1877).
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1876· 1 entry
At Strasbourg in collaboration with Emil Warburg, Kundt proved that mercury vapour is a monatomic gas
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1872· 1 entry
Was called to the newly re-established University of Strassburg, where he took a great part in its organization, and was largely concerned in the erection of the Physical Institute
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1867· 1 entry
Kundt became a Privatdozent at Berlin, and the following year he was appointed Professor of Physics at the Federal Polytechnic Institute in Zurich (now ETH Zurich), where he was the teacher of Wilhelm Röntgen
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1866· 1 entry
Developed a valuable method for the investigation of aerial waves within pipes, based on the fact that a finely divided powder, lycopodium for example, when dusted over the interior of a tube in which is established a
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1864· 1 entry
With a thesis on the depolarization of light
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1839· 1 entry
Born 1839-11-18.
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