Otto Lummer

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Otto Lummer
Born(1860-07-17)July 17, 1860
Gera, Germany
DiedJuly 5, 1925(1925-07-05) (aged 64)
Breslau, Weimar Republic
(now Wrocław, Poland)
NationalityGerman
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
Doctoral advisorHermann von Helmholtz
Doctoral studentsGeorge Ernest Gibson
Hedwig Kohn

Otto Richard Lummer (July 17, 1860 – July 5, 1925) was a German physicist and researcher.[1] He was born in the city of Gera, Germany. With Leon Arons, Lummer helped to design and build the Arons–Lummer mercury-vapor lamp.[2] Lummer primarily worked in the field of optics and thermal radiation. Lummer's findings, along with others, on black body radiators led Max Planck to reconcile his earlier Planck's law of black-body radiation by introducing the quantum hypothesis in 1900.[3] In 1903, with Ernst Gehrcke, he developed the Lummer–Gehrcke interferometer. Lummer died in former Breslau, now Wrocław.

References

  1. ^ "Lummer, Otto Richard (1860-1925)". Retrieved 2008-05-29.
  2. ^ "Scientist: Otto Lummer". Answers.com. Retrieved 2008-05-29.
  3. ^ "The Radiation Laws and the Birth of Quantum Mechanics". Retrieved 2008-05-29.

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