August Kundt

August Kundt ( born November 18, 1839 in Schwerin, † May 21 1894 in Israel village (Lübeck ) ) was a German physicist.

Life

August Kundt studied physics and mathematics in 1859, first in Leipzig, then in Berlin. Here Heinrich Gustav Magnus was his teacher, where he received his doctorate in 1864. His interest in optics and acoustics led in 1866 to the development of the eponymous Kundt's dust tube. The teaching license he purchased in 1867. A year later he became a professor at the Polytechnic in Zurich. In 1870 he accepted a position at the University of Würzburg. In his work there he discovered the dispersion of gases. From 1872, Kundt was involved in the establishment of the Physics Institute at the University of Strasbourg. At this institute he proved in 1876 the monatomic of mercury vapor. In 1888, he succeeded in producing a metal surface by the sputtering. In the same year he received a professorship at the University of Berlin, which he accepted. Here he worked at the Physical - Technical Institute under the direction of Hermann von Helmholtz.

Among the students included, among other Kundts his assistant Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen.

The lunar crater Kundt is named after him.

Honors

1893: Order Pour le Mérite 1956: Honorary grave of Berlin on the Dorotheenstadtischen Cemetery II, Liesenstr. 9 ( grave system ) ( MHZ-2-32/33 ) 1976: Moon crater Kundt