Ernst Pringsheim
Ernst Pringsheim · Science & Medicine
Physicist; experimental blackbody radiation measurements
1859, Breslau, Prussia (now Wrocław, Poland) — 1917, Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland)
Germany (Breslau · Berlin)
Ernst Pringsheim is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; experimental blackbody radiation measurements
German experimental physicist who, together with Otto Lummer, made precise measurements of blackbody (cavity) radiation in the 1890s. Their observed deviations from existing radiation laws in the far infrared were a direct spur to Max Planck's quantum radiation formula of 1900. He came from the prominent assimilated Jewish Pringsheim family of Silesia; he is listed among Jewish physicists in Jinfo.org's index.
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Physicist; experimental blackbody radiation measurements
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
