Otto von Guericke
Physicist, Academic
1602 – 1686
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Who was Otto von Guericke?
Otto von Guericke was a German scientist, inventor, and politician. His major scientific achievements were the establishment of the physics of vacuums, the discovery of an experimental method for clearly demonstrating electrostatic repulsion, and his advocacy of the reality of "action at a distance" and of "absolute space".
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- Born
- Nov 20, 1602
Magdeburg - Parents
- Spouses
- Margarethe Alemann
(1626/09/08 - 1645/04/26) - Dorothea Lentke
(1652/05/13 - 1686/05/11)
- Margarethe Alemann
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Germans
- Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
- Education
- University of Leipzig
(1617 - ) - Leiden University
- University of Leipzig
- Lived in
- Magdeburg
- Hamburg
- Died
- May 21, 1686
Hamburg
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on July 23, 2013
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