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August Ludwig Friedrich Wilhelm Seebeck (27 December 1805 in
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19th-century German physicists 1805 births 1849 deaths Auditory scientists {{Germany-physicist-stub
August Ludwig Friedrich Wilhelm Seebeck (27 December 1805 in Jena
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– 19 March 1849 in Dresden
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) was a scientist at the Technische Universität Dresden
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Seebeck is primarily remembered for his work on sound and hearing, in particular with experiments with an acoustic siren that demonstrated that the pitch of a tone did not depend on the tone having a fundamental frequency component of the pitch frequency. His observations and theories are now highly regarded, but historically suffered in the battle with Ohm
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* Georg Ohm (1789–1854), German physicist and namesake of the term ''ohm''
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and Helmholtz, who took a Fourier analysis view of the sound of tones.
With respect to Ohm's acoustic law, historians have concluded that Seebeck "successfully discredited the hypothesis and forced Ohm to withdraw from the field."
See also
*Auditory science Auditory science or hearing science is a field of research and education concerning the perception of sounds by humans, animals, or machines. It is a heavily interdisciplinary field at the crossroad between acoustics, neuroscience, and psychology ...
*Sound localization
Sound localization is a listener's ability to identify the location or origin of a detected sound in direction and distance.
The sound localization mechanisms of the mammalian auditory system have been extensively studied. The auditory system us ...
*Temporal theory (hearing) The temporal theory of hearing states that human perception of sound depends on temporal patterns with which neurons respond to sound in the cochlea. Therefore, in this theory, the pitch of a pure tone is determined by the period of neuron firin ...
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