Heinrich Lenz
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12 February 1804 Dorpat, Russian Empire |
| Died | 10 February 1865 (aged 60) Rome, Papal State |
Heinrich Friedrich Emil Lenz (Russian: Эмилий Христианович Ленц) (12 February 1804 – 10 February 1865) was a Russian physicist of Baltic German ethnicity. He is most noted for formulating Lenz's law in electrodynamics in 1833. The symbol , conventionally representing inductance, is chosen in his honor.
Lenz was born in Dorpat (nowadays Tartu, Estonia), at that time the Governorate of Livonia in the Russian Empire. After completing his secondary education in 1820, Lenz studied chemistry and physics at the University of Dorpat. He traveled with the navigator Otto von Kotzebue on his third expedition around the world from 1823 to 1826. On the voyage Lenz studied climatic conditions and the physical properties of seawater. The results have been published in "Memoirs of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences" (1831).
After the voyage, Lenz began working at the University of St. Petersburg, Russia, where he later served as the Dean of Mathematics and Physics from 1840 to 1863 and was Rector from 1863 until his death in 1865. Lenz also taught at the Petrischule in 1830 and 1831, and at the Mikhailovskaya Artillery Academy.
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