Heinrich Kayser
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| Born | Heinrich Gustav Johannes Kayser 16 March 1853 Bingen am Rhein |
| Died | 14 October 1940 (aged 87) Bonn |
| Citizenship | German |
| Fields | Physicist, Spectroscopy |
| Institutions |
Technische Hochschule, Hannover University of Bonn |
| Alma mater | Sophie Gymnasium (Berlin) University of Strasbourg University of Berlin |
| Doctoral advisor | Wilhelm Roentgen |
| Known for |
Helium in the Earth's atmosphere, spectra, kayser unit |
| Influences |
Hermann von Helmholtz Gustav Kirchhoff Carl Runge |
| Notable awards | ForMemRS |
Heinrich Gustav Johannes Kayser ForMemRS (German: [ˈkaɪzɐ]; 16 March 1853 – 14 October 1940) was a German physicist and spectroscopist.
Kayser was born at Bingen am Rhein. Kayser's early work was concerned with the characteristics of acoustic waves. He discovered the occurrence of helium in the Earth's atmosphere in 1868 during a solar eclipse when he detected a new spectral line in the solar spectrum. In 1881 Kayser coined the word “adsorption”. Together with Carl Runge, he examined the spectra of chemical elements. In 1905, he wrote a paper on electron theory.
The kayser unit, associated with wavenumber, of the CGS system was named after him. He died at Bonn in 1940.
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