Died 1874-02-27.
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Moritz von Jacobi
Moritz Hermann von Jacobi, also known as Boris Semyonovich Yakobi, was a German-Russian electrical engineer and physicist.
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science · German-Russian electrical engineer and physicist (1801–1874) · physicist · inventor · university teacher · electrotechnician · also Moritz von Jacobi, Moritz Hermann (Boris Semyonovich) von Jacobi, Moritz Hermann von Jacobi, Boris Semyonovich Jacobi, Moritz Hermann Jacobi, Moritz Hermann
Born 9 September 1801 · Died 27 February 1874 · Q60579
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1867· 2 entries
Awarded International Exposition 1867 (1867).
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Was a Russian delegate to the Commission on Measurement Units at the Paris World's Fair
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1864· 1 entry
Won noble title presented by Alexander II of Russia (1864).
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1854· 1 entry
60 Jacobi mines were laid in the vicinity of the Forts Pavel and Alexander (Kronstadt)
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1853· 1 entry
Jacobi developed the Jacobi naval mine
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1842· 1 entry
Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1842).
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1840· 1 entry
Awarded Demidov Prize (1840).
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1839· 1 entry
Jacobi constructed a 28-foot electric motor boat powered by battery cells, which carried 14 passengers on the Neva river against the current at three miles per hour
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1838· 1 entry
Discovered galvanoplastics, or electrotyping, a method of making printing plates by electroplating
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1837· 1 entry
To research the usage of electromagnetic forces for moving machines at the Russian Academy of Sciences
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1835· 1 entry
Moved to Dorpat (now Tartu, Estonia) to lecture at Dorpat University
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1827· 1 entry
“Gauss's Abstract of the Disquisitiones Generales circa Superficies Curvas presented to the Royal Society of Gottingen”
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1801· 1 entry
Born 1801-09-09.
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