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Ernst Chladni
Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni was a German physicist and musician. His most important work, for which he is sometimes labeled the father of acoustics, included research on vibrating plates and the calculation of the speed of sound for different gases. He also undertook pioneering work in the study of meteorites and is regarded by some as the father of meteoritics.
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Born 30 November 1756 · Died 3 April 1827 · Q213579
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Prato de Chladni 01
Exhibit made by Estes Objethos Atelier, video by Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton · CC BY-SA 4.0
Prato de Chladni 02
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Prato de Chladni 03
Exhibit made by Estes Objethos Atelier, video by Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton · CC BY-SA 4.0
Prato de Chladni 04
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1993· 1 entry
From the Carlton (IIICD) iron meteorite, was named chladniite in his honor
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1827· 2 entries
Died 1827-04-03.
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And it now resides in the Museum of Natural History at Humboldt University of Berlin
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1808· 1 entry
And had demonstrated the vibration patterns before an audience that included not only the leading French scientists but Napoleon himself; Napoleon set a prize for the best mathematical explanation
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1803· 1 entry
The physicist and astronomer Jean Baptiste Biot was commissioned by the French Minister of the Interior to investigate a meteor shower over L'Aigle in northern France that had peppered the town with thousands of meteorit
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1756· 1 entry
Born 1756-11-30.
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