Heinrich Georg Friedrich Schröder (28 September 1810 – 12 May 1885) was a German
natural scientist
Natural science or empirical science is one of the branches of science concerned with the description, understanding and prediction of natural phenomena, based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation. Mechanisms such as peer ...
(physicist, chemist), mathematician and educator.
[Alexander Kipnis]
Schröder, Georg Friedrich Heinrich
In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, , p. 564
Together with
Theodor von Dusch
Theodor von Dusch (17 September 1824 – 13 January 1890) was a German physician who was a native of Karlsruhe. He was the son of Baden statesman Alexander von Dusch (1789-1876).
He studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg, where he had a ...
, he was credited with the development of a method of air sterilization by filtration through cotton, used for
food preservation
Food preservation includes processes that make food more resistant to microorganism growth and slow the redox, oxidation of fats. This slows down the decomposition and rancidification process. Food preservation may also include processes that in ...
(1853).
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In 1858, he published a sketch]["Ueber eine optische Inversion bei Betrachtung verkehrter, durch optische Vorrichtung entworfener, physischer Bilder." In: '']Annalen der Physik und Chemie
''Annalen der Physik'' (English: ''Annals of Physics'') is one of the oldest scientific journals on physics; it has been published since 1799. The journal publishes original, peer-reviewed papers on experimental, theoretical, applied, and mathem ...
'', Band 181, Joh. Ambr. Barth, Leipzig, 1858, p. 298 about an optical illusion
In visual perception, an optical illusion (also called a visual illusion) is an illusion caused by the visual system and characterized by a visual perception, percept that arguably appears to differ from reality. Illusions come in a wide varie ...
which now bears his name.[
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1810 births
1885 deaths
19th-century German physicists
19th-century German chemists
19th-century German mathematicians
19th-century German educators