Heinrich Gustav Magnus
Wilhelm von Beetz Rudolf Clausius Eduard HagenbachBischoff Wilhelm Heinrich Heintz Hermann Helmholtz Gustav Karsten Alexander Mitscherlich Arthur von Oettingen Georg Hermann Quincke Edward Schunck
Magnus was born in Berlin, the son of a wealthy merchant of Jewish religion. In his youth he received private instruction in mathematics and natural science. At the University of Berlin he studied chemistry and physics, 182227, and obtained a doctorate for a dissertation on tellurium in 1827. His doctoral adviser was Eilhard Mitscherlich. He then went to Stockholm for a year as a visiting research fellow at the laboratory of Jns Jakob Berzelius . That was followed by a year in Paris at the laboratory of Joseph Louis GayLussac and Louis Jacques Thnard. Therefore he had a firstrate education in experimental science when in 1831 he was appointed lecturer in physics and technology at the University of Berlin. In 1834 he became assistant professor, and in 1845 was appointed full professor, and later he was elected the dean of the faculty.
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