August Hagenbach (22 December 1871 – 11 August 1955) was a Swiss physicist working in spectroscopy. He was the son of physicist

Eduard Hagenbach-Bischoff Eduard Hagenbach-Bischoff (20 February 1833, in Basel – 23 December 1910, in Basel) was a Swiss physicist. The Hagenbach-Bischoff quota (a voting system) is named after him. The son of the theologian Karl Rudolf Hagenbach, he studied physics a ...

and obtained his Ph.D. in 1894 at the

University of Leipzig Leipzig University (german: Universität Leipzig), in Leipzig in Saxony, Germany, is one of the world's oldest universities and the second-oldest university (by consecutive years of existence) in Germany. The university was founded on 2 Decemb ...

with a thesis titled ''""'' under the supervision of

Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann (; 2 October 1826 – 24 March 1899) was a German physicist and scientific author. Life Wiedemann was born in Berlin the son of a merchant who died two years later. Following the death of his mother in 1842 he lived wi ...

. In 1906 he took over the chaired professorship at the

University of Basel The University of Basel (Latin: ''Universitas Basiliensis'', German: ''Universität Basel'') is a university in Basel, Switzerland. Founded on 4 April 1460, it is Switzerland's oldest university and among the world's oldest surviving universit ...

earlier held by his father. In 1926 he was rector of the University of Basel. One of his students was

Ernst Stueckelberg Ernst Carl Gerlach Stueckelberg (baptised as Johann Melchior Ernst Karl Gerlach Stückelberg, full name after 1911: Baron Ernst Carl Gerlach Stueckelberg von Breidenbach zu Breidenstein und Melsbach; 1 February 1905 – 4 September 1984) was a S ...

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History of Physics Department of Basel University (German)

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Brief 'genealogical' information on August Hagenbach
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Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hagenbach, August 1871 births 1955 deaths Swiss physicists Spectroscopists