Emil Wiechert

Physicist, Deceased Person

1861 – 1928

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Who was Emil Wiechert?

Emil Johann Wiechert was a German physicist and geophysicist who made many contributions to both fields, including presenting the first verifiable model of a layered structure of the Earth and being among the first to discover the electron. He went on to become the world's first Professor of Geophysics at the University of Göttingen.

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Born
Dec 26, 1861
Sovetsk
Nationality
  • Germany
Profession
Education
  • PhD, University of Königsberg
    Physics
    ( - 1889/02/01)
  • Habilitation, University of Königsberg
    Physics
    ( - 1890/10)
Employment
  • University of Göttingen
Died
Mar 19, 1928
Göttingen

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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