Eduard Riecke (1 December 1845 – 11 June 1915) was a German
experimental physicist
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.
Riecke studied physics at the Polytechnic in Stuttgart, at the
University of Tübingen
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and at the
University of Göttingen
The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen, (german: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, known informally as Georgia Augusta) is a public research university in the city of Göttingen, Germany. Founded ...
under
Wilhelm Weber and
Friedrich Kohlrausch, where he received his doctorate in 1871 and qualified as a professor shortly thereafter. In 1873 he became associate professor and in 1881 full professor, which he remained until his death.
He conducted experiments on electrical conduction in metals for which he further developed a model of management by electrons began by
Paul Drude
Paul Karl Ludwig Drude (; 12 July 1863 – 5 July 1906) was a German physicist specializing in optics. He wrote a fundamental textbook integrating optics with Maxwell's theories of electromagnetism.
Education
Born into an ethnic German family, D ...
. With the model, among other things, the decrease in conductivity could be explained with increase in temperature. Later he worked among others with electricity conduction in gases.
The
Bavarian Academy of Sciences
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appointed him in 1909 as a corresponding member. His students include
Johannes Stark
Johannes Stark (, 15 April 1874 – 21 June 1957) was a German physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1919 "for his discovery of the Doppler effect in canal rays and the splitting of spectral lines in electric fields". This phe ...
.
Works
* Physics textbook, 2 vols, Leipzig 1908
References
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