Johann Georg Tralles
Physicist, Deceased Person
1763 – 1822
Who was Johann Georg Tralles?
Johann Georg Tralles was a German mathematician and physicist.
He was born in Hamburg, Germany and was educated at the University of Göttingen beginning in 1783. He became a professor at the University of Bern in 1785. In 1810, he became a professor of mathematics at the University of Berlin.
In 1798 he served as the Swiss representative to the French metric convocation, and was a member of its committee on weights and measures. An iron "committee" meter, a duplicate of the prototype archive meter, was then given as a gift to Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler. From 1803 until 1805 these two men worked together on a topological survey of the Canton of Bern.
He was the inventor of the alcoholmeter, a device for measuring the amount of alcohol in a liquid.
He died in London, England. The crater Tralles on the Moon is named after him, as is the alcoholmeter he invented.
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- Born
- Oct 15, 1763
Hamburg - Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
- Education
- University of Göttingen
- Died
- Nov 19, 1822
London
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on July 23, 2013
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