Karl-Hermann Knoblauch

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Karl-Hermann Knoblauch
Born 1820-04-11
Berlin, Germany
Died 1895-06-30
Baden-Baden,Germany
Residence Germany
Nationality German
Fields Physicist
Institutions University of Halle
University of Bonn
University of Marburg
Alma mater University of Berlin
Doctoral advisor Heinrich Gustav Magnus
Known for Thermal Radiation
Diamagnetism
Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Notable awards Red eagle medal (2nd Class)
Crown medal (2nd Class)
Peace medal of Württemberg
Prussian gold medal for science and art

Karl-Hermann Knoblauch (1820-04-11 – 1895-06-30) was a prominent German physicist. He was one of the six founding members of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft at Berlin on 14 January 1845. All six were independent-minded students of Heinrich Gustav Magnus.

He studied the magnetic properties of crystals and the oscillatory nature of infrared, receiving his PhD in 1847.

At Marburg, he worked with John Tyndall from 1850 while earning his o.Prof. Tyndall's talk on this work given in 1853 at the Royal Institution attracted Michael Faraday's ongoing interest. Tyndall and Knoblauch maintained a correspondence over the next 25 years.[1]

In 1853 he was called to University of Halle, where he taught through the winter semester of 1895. He was the Rector of the University three times from 1868 to 1871. From 1878 to 1895 he was the 15th President of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina returning it to Halle, where it remains today.[2].

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  1. ^ Tyndall's correspondence
  2. ^ History of the Leopoldina
  1. Karl Hermann Knoblauch, De calore radiante disquisitiones experimentis quibusdam novis illustratae - Berlin, 1846. - 103pp.
  2. Karl Hermann Knoblauch, Ueber die Polarisation der strahlenden Wärme durch totale Reflexion, Nova Acta der Leop.-Carol. Akad. der Naturforscher; 55, Halle, 1890

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Persondata
NAME Knoblauch, Karl Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knoblauch, Carl Hermann
SHORT DESCRIPTION German Chemist
DATE OF BIRTH 1820-04-11
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin, Germany
DATE OF DEATH 1895-06-30
PLACE OF DEATH Baden-Baden, Germany