August Seebeck
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Prof. Dr. phil. August Ludwig Friedrich Wilhelm Seebeck (1805–1849) was a scientist at the Technische Universität Dresden.
Seebeck is primarily remembered for his work on sound and hearing, in particular with experiments with an acoustic siren that demonstrated that the pitch of a tone did not depend on the tone having a fundamental frequency component of the pitch frequency. His observations and theories are now highly regarded,[1] but historically suffered in the battle with Ohm and Helmholtz, who took a Fourier analysis view of the sound of tones.
Wodurch kann uber die Frage, was zu einem Tone gehoere, entschieden werden, als eben durch das Ohr? (How else can the question as to what makes out a tone be decided but by the ear?)
—August Seebeck 1844
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- ^ John K. Bates. Edited Selections from J.F. Schouten's "The Residue Revisted".
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