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Johann Christian Poggendorff
German physicist (1796–1877)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 29 December 1796, 22 December 1796
- Died
- 24 January 1877
- Place of birth
- Hamburg
- Place of death
- Berlin
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Poggendorff
- Field of work
- electrochemistry
- Occupation
- journalist, physicist, university teacher
- Position held
- professor
- Citizenship
- Hamburg
- academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Medicine
- archives at
- ETH Zurich University Archives, Berlin State Library, Q81164803
- described by source
- Nordisk familjebok, Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Poggendorff, Johann Christian, BEIC Digital Library, Nature, Otto's encyclopedia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The New Student's Reference Work, Physicists: Biographical Dictionary
- educated at
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- employer
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- interested in
- electricity
- languages spoken, written or signed
- German
- member of
- Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
- name in native language
- Johann Christian Poggendorff
- place of burial
- Prenzlauer Berg
- relative
- Adolf Kneser
- residence
- Kingdom of Prussia
- topic's main category
- Category:Johann Christian Poggendorff
- writing language
- German
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