August Beer

August Beer (31 July 1825 – 18 November 1863) was a German physicist and mathematician. Beer was born in Trier, where he studied mathematics and natural sciences. He worked for Julius Plücker in Bonn afterwards, where he earned a Ph.D. in 1848 and became a lecturer in 1850. In 1854, Beer published his book Einleitung in die höhere Optik. His findings, together with those of Johann Heinrich Lambert, make up the Beer-Lambert law. Beer became a professor of mathematics at Bonn in 1855. He died in Bonn in 1863.

Selected writings

• Beer, August (1865). Einleitung in die Elektrostatik, die Lehre vom Magnetismus und die Elektrodynamik. Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn. http://books.google.com/books?id=Sh0AAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR7&dq=physics+Beer+trier#PPR3,M2. 

References

General

• In Greenfield, E. V. (1922). Technical and scientific German. Boston: D.C. Heath & Co.

External links

• Singer, Isidore; Mels, Edgar. "August Beer". http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=B&artid=505. Retrieved 2008-10-04.