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Franz Ernst Neumann
German physicist and mineralogist (1798-1895)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 11 September 1798
- Died
- 23 May 1895
- Conflict
- Napoleonic Wars
- Place of birth
- Joachimsthal
- Place of death
- Königsberg
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Neumann
- Father
- Franz Ernst Neumann
- Mother
- Wilhelmine von Mellin
- Field of work
- theoretical physics
- Occupation
- physicist, mathematician, university teacher, crystallographer, mineralogist, military volunteer
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Awards
- honorary doctor of the University of Königsberg, Order of the Red Eagle 3rd Class, Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Order of the Red Eagle 2nd Class, Commander's Cross of the Order of the Crown of Prussia, Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, 2nd Class Order of the Crown with the Star, Copley Medal, 1st Class Order of the Crown, Foreign Member of the Royal Society
- academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- archives at
- Göttingen State and University Library
- assessment
- Abitur, comprehensive examination, habilitation
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, BEIC Digital Library, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, New Encyclopedic Dictionary, Biographisches Jahrbuch und Deutscher Nekrolog, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Physicists: Biographical Dictionary
- doctoral advisor
- Christian Samuel Weiss
- doctoral student
- Gustav Kirchhoff, Georg Hermann Quincke, Alfred Clebsch, Oscar Emil Meyer, Louis Saalschütz, Woldemar Voigt, Albert Wangerin
- educated at
- Frederick William University Berlin, University of Jena, Friedrichswerder Gymnasium, Frederick William University Berlin
- honorific prefix
- Geheimrat, Excellency, Geheimer Regierungsrat
- languages spoken, written or signed
- German
- member of
- Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Royal Society of London, French Academy of Sciences, Urburschenschaft, Pontificia Accademia dei Nuovi Lincei, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Academy of Sciences of the Institute of Bologna, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- military branch
- Prussian Army
- military unit
- Colbergsches Grenadier-Regiment „Graf Gneisenau“
- name in native language
- Franz Ernst Neumann
- notable work
- Neumann's law, Kopp's law
- place of burial
- Professorial cemetery in Kaliningrad
- significant event
- wounded in action
- student
- Leonhard Sohncke
- student of
- Christian Samuel Weiss
- topic's main category
- Category:Franz Ernst Neumann
- writing language
- German
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