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Julius Plücker
Julius Plücker was a German mathematician and physicist. He made fundamental contributions to the field of analytical geometry and was a pioneer in the investigations of cathode rays that led eventually to the discovery of the electron. He also vastly extended the study of Lamé curves.
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science · German mathematician and physicist (1801–1868) · physicist · mathematician · university teacher · also Julius Plücker, Plücker
Born 16 July 1801 · Died 22 May 1868 · Q57561
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1868· 1 entry
Died 1868-05-22.
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1866· 1 entry
Won Copley Medal (1866).
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1865· 1 entry
Plücker returned to the field of geometry and invented what was known as line geometry in the nineteenth century
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1858· 1 entry
After a year of working with vacuum tubes of his Bonn colleague Heinrich Geißler, he published his first classical researches on the action of the magnet on the electric discharge in rarefied gases
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1855· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1855).
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1851· 1 entry
Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1851).
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1836· 1 entry
Plücker was made professor of physics at University of Bonn
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1831· 1 entry
Published the second volume, in which he clearly established on a firm and independent basis projective duality
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1825· 2 entries
Returned to Bonn, and in 1828 was made professor of mathematics
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Studied at University of Paris (1823–1825).
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1823· 3 entries
Studied at University of Bonn (1820–1823).
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Where he came under the influence of the great school of French geometers, whose founder, Gaspard Monge, had only recently died
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Studied at University of Marburg, Doctor (1823–1823).
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1820· 1 entry
Studied at Heidelberg University (1819–1820).
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1819· 1 entry
Studied at Königliches Gymnasium, Alleestraße 32 (1816–1819).
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1801· 1 entry
Born 1801-07-16.
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