August Beer
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
August Beer (July 31, 1825 – November 18, 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.
[edit] 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&as_brr=1#PPR3,M2.
[edit] External links
- Singer, Isidore; Mels, Edgar. "August Beer". http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=B&artid=505. Retrieved on 2008-10-04.
 This article about a German scientist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 |
This article about a German physicist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
.png){kind=small}
 |
This article about a German mathematician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
