Heinrich Rubens
Heinrich Rubens · Science & Medicine
Physicist; infrared radiation measurements that guided Planck's law
1865, Wiesbaden, Germany — 1922, Berlin, Germany
Germany
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Heinrich Rubens was a German physicist whose precise measurements of far-infrared ('residual ray') radiation from heated bodies gave Max Planck the experimental data that led directly to Planck's radiation law and the birth of quantum theory in 1900. He was a professor in Berlin. He was Jewish.
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Physicist; infrared radiation measurements that guided Planck's law
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
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