Erik Edlund

Erik Edlund ( born March 14, 1819 in the parish Edsberg, community Lekeberg; † August 19, 1888 in Stockholm) was a Swedish physicist and meteorologist.

Edlund studied since 1840, Mathematics and Physics at Uppsala University and wrote his dissertation in 1845 under Svanberg. Then he went for two years after the University of Leipzig with Wilhelm Eduard Weber. Edlund then worked as a lecturer in Uppsala, before he was appointed in 1850 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Professor of Physics. In 1871, Edlund Chairman of Directorate in the Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm. In the elections to the Swedish parliament in 1872 Edlund won the seat for the City of Stockholm.

1858 were introduced at the suggestion Edlund meteorological observation stations in Sweden. The following observations were until 1873 under his leadership and were seamlessly continued by the newly established meteorological Central Institute. Edlund published his observations in 14 volumes, which were published at the expense of the Academy of Sciences.

When researchers looked Edlund has mainly concerned with the theory of electricity and about 70 papers written on this that have appeared in the writings of the Academy of Sciences, in the annals of physics and chemistry, in the Philosophical Magazine and the Annales de Chimie et de Physique. Also worked to liquid movements and the polarization of light. He described a way to exchange electrical signals over a cable simultaneously among others. Edlund is known as a doctor father of Svante Arrhenius. In 1882 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina.

Erik Edlund died on 19 August 1888 in Stockholm.