Gustav Magnus
| Gustav Magnus | |
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Heinrich Gustav Magnus
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| Born |
2 May 1802 Berlin, Brandenburg, HRE |
| Died | 4 April 1870 (aged 67) Berlin, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater |
Berlin University Sorbonne |
| Known for |
Magnus effect Magnus' green salt |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Chemistry and physics |
| Institutions | Berlin University |
| Doctoral advisor | Eilhard Mitscherlich |
| Doctoral students |
Hermann Knoblauch August Kundt Emil Warburg Gustav Wiedemann |
| Other notable students |
Wilhelm von Beetz |
Wilhelm von Beetz
Rudolf Clausius
Eduard Hagenbach-Bischoff
Wilhelm Heinrich Heintz
Hermann Helmholtz
Gustav Karsten
Alexander Mitscherlich
Arthur von Oettingen
Georg Hermann Quincke
Edward Schunck
Heinrich Gustav Magnus (2 May 1802 – 4 April 1870) was a notable experimental scientist. His training was mostly in chemistry but his later research was mostly in physics. He spent the great bulk of his career at the University of Berlin, where he is remembered for his laboratory teaching as much as for his original research. He did not use his first given name, and was known throughout his life as Gustav Magnus.
Magnus was born in Berlin to a Jewish family, his father a wealthy merchant. In his youth he received private instruction in mathematics and natural science. At the University of Berlin he studied chemistry and physics, 1822–27, and obtained a doctorate for a dissertation on tellurium in 1827. His doctoral adviser was Eilhard Mitscherlich. He then went to Stockholm for a year as a visiting research fellow at the laboratory of Jöns Jakob Berzelius (who was a personal friend of Mitscherlich). That was followed by a year in Paris at the laboratory of Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and Louis Jacques Thénard. Therefore, he had a first-rate education in experimental science when in 1831 he was appointed lecturer in physics and technology at the University of Berlin. In 1834 he became assistant professor, and in 1845 was appointed full professor, and later he was elected the dean of the faculty.
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