Adolf Ferdinand Weinhold

Adolf Ferdinand Weinhold ( born May 19, 1841 in Zwenkau; † July 2, 1917 in Chemnitz ) was a German physicist and chemist.

Weinhold was the fourth child of the Royal Court council Friedrich Moritz Weinhold and spent his childhood in Zwenkau near Leipzig. In the years 1857-1861 he studied at the universities of Leipzig and Göttingen, primarily chemistry at Otto Linné Erdmann and Friedrich Wohler, before he found a job as an assistant at the Agricultural Experimental Station in Chemnitz. In 1864 he was on a trial basis in 1865 and ordered a physics teacher at the Royal Gewerbschule Chemnitz. In 1870 he received the title of professor and 1873 for his work on " measurement of high temperatures " of the University of Leipzig the academic degree of Dr. phil.

Weinhold was one of the initiators of the first municipal power stations on three-phase base in Chemnitz, Dresden, Leipzig and Plauen.

In his book " Physical demonstrations ," he described in 1881 for laboratory use a vacuum jacket bottle. However, James Dewar in 1874 took a double-walled, consisting of mirrored glass, evacuated vessel for storage of liquefied gases, which is even today still referred to his honor as a dewar. Reinhold Burger from Pankow took up the idea of the vacuum jacket and settled on October 1, 1903 patented the jug.

In his honor, the following building its name:

• The Zwenkauer market development " Weinhold arcade "
• The " Adolf Ferdinand Weinhold - construction " of the Chemnitz University of Technology