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Franz Ernst Neumann
Franz Ernst Neumann was a German mineralogist and physicist. He devised the first formulas to calculate inductance. He also formulated Neumann's law for molecular heat. In electromagnetism, he is credited for introducing the magnetic vector potential. In A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism of 1873, James Clerk Maxwell attributes the mathematical formulation of Faraday's law of induction to Neu…
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science · German physicist and mineralogist (1798–1895) · physicist · mathematician · university teacher · crystallographer · mineralogist · military volunteer · also Franz Ernst Neumann, Neumann
Born 11 September 1798 · Died 23 May 1895 · Q61774
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2026· 2 entries
BBC: Neumann uncertain over future after Quins exit
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2003· 1 entry
“t do. If you will tell me precisely what it is that a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that. Edwin Thompson Jaynes, Probability Theory: The Logic of Science (2003); referring to the 1948 Princeton talk he attended to. The greatest polymath and fastest thinker of the 20th century. Ash Jogalekar, in a tweet on December 29, 2019 Now, just consider the smartest person who has ever lived. On almost everyone”
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1954· 1 entry
“The Role of Mathematics in the Sciences and in Society”
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1900· 1 entry
Voigt attributed this principle to Neumann's 1832 paper even though, at most, all that was present in that work was an implicit assumption that the symmetry of the phenomenon was equal to that of the crystal
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1895· 1 entry
Died 1895-05-23.
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1888· 1 entry
Awarded 1st Class Order of the Crown (1888).
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1886· 1 entry
Won Copley Medal (1886).
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1878· 1 entry
Was on spherical harmonics (Beiträge zur Theorie der Kugelfunctionen)
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1876· 2 entries
Awarded 2nd Class Order of the Crown (1876).
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And died at Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia) in 1895 at the age of 96
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1872· 1 entry
Awarded Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1872).
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1869· 1 entry
Awarded Commander's Cross of the Order of the Crown of Prussia (1869).
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1864· 1 entry
Awarded Order of the Red Eagle 2nd Class (1864).
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1862· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1862).
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1860· 1 entry
Awarded Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order (1860).
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1854· 1 entry
Awarded Order of the Red Eagle 3rd Class (1854).
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1847· 1 entry
Introduced the first mathematical treatment of Faraday's law of induction
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1845· 2 entries
Neumann introduced the magnetic vector potential to discuss Ampère's circuital law
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And 1847, established mathematically the laws of the induction of electric currents
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1844· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Königsberg presented by medical school (1844).
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1834· 1 entry
The Mathematisch-physikalisches Seminar which operated in two sections for mathematics and for mathematical physics
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1832· 1 entry
By the aid of a particular hypothesis as to the constitution of the ether, he reached by a rigorous dynamical calculation results agreeing with those obtained by Augustin Louis Cauchy, and succeeded in deducing laws of d
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1828· 1 entry
Became extraordinary, and in 1829 ordinary, professor of mineralogy and physics
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1825· 1 entry
Studied at Frederick William University Berlin, Doctor (1823–1825).
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1822· 1 entry
Studied at University of Jena (1818–1822).
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1818· 2 entries
As a student of theology, but soon turned to scientific subjects
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Studied at Frederick William University Berlin (1817–1818).
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1817· 1 entry
Studied at Friedrichswerder Gymnasium (1817).
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1815· 2 entries
Career landmark: wounded in action.
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Paused his education at Berlin to serve as a volunteer in the Hundred Days against Napoleon, and was wounded in the Battle of Ligny
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1798· 1 entry
Born 1798-09-11.
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