Heinrich Gustav Magnus
Heinrich Gustav Magnus · Science & Medicine
Physicist and chemist; discovered the Magnus effect that explains the curve of a spinning ball, and trained a generation of German physicists in the first university physics laboratory
2 May 1802, Berlin, Prussia — 4 April 1870, Berlin, Prussia
Germany
Heinrich Gustav Magnus is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist and chemist; discovered the Magnus effect that explains the curve of a spinning ball, and trained a generation of German physicists in the first university physics laboratory
Heinrich Gustav Magnus was born in Berlin to a Jewish family of wealthy merchants. He showed in 1852 that a spinning cylinder or ball moving through a fluid is pushed sideways — the Magnus effect, which explains the curve of a struck ball and the behaviour of rotating bodies in flight. He also isolated the first platinum-ammine complex, Magnus's green salt, and ran in his own house the first physics teaching laboratory in a German university, from which Helmholtz, Clausius and Tyndall came.
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Physicist and chemist; discovered the Magnus effect that explains the curve of a spinning ball, and trained a generation of German physicists in the first university physics laboratory
Source: Wikipedia — Heinrich Gustav Magnus
