Eduard Hagenbach-Bischoff

Eduard Hagenbach - Bischoff ( born February 20, 1833 Basel, † December 23, 1910 ) was a Swiss physicist who is known for was named after him dialing ( Hagenbach - Bischoff method).

The son of the theologian Karl Rudolf Hagenbach studied doctorate in Basel (with Jules Célestin Jamin ) and in 1855 at the University of Basel ( with Rudolf Merian ), in Berlin (with Heinrich Wilhelm Dove and Heinrich Gustav Magnus ), Geneva, Paris. After that, he taught at the Basel trade school and was after his habilitation for a year professor of mathematics at the University of Basel. From 1863 to 1906 he was professor of physics in Basel ( successor to Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann ). In 1870, he served as Rector of the University. In 1874 he became director of the Institute at the newly established physical Bernoullianum, and from 1874 to 1879 he was president of the Swiss Academy of Natural Sciences.

He authored about 60 papers on - among other things - Viscosity (1860 ), the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere (1868 ), fluorescence (1869 ), propagation of electricity in the telegraph wire (1886 ), glaciology (Report on the 25-year survey of the Rhone Glacier, 1899 ) and the history of science. Hagenbach - Bischoff sat down one particularly for the popularization of science and held on Bernoullianum over 100 generally understandable lectures, in 1896, for example via the recently discovered x-rays. Among his students was Rudolf Brefin.

His chair was taken over in 1906 by his son August Hagenbach, whose field was spectroscopy.