Heinrich Wilhelm Dove

Heinrich Wilhelm Dove ( born October 6, 1803 in Legnica, † April 4, 1879 in Berlin) was a German physicist and meteorologist.

Life

Dove studied since 1821 mathematics, physics, philology and philosophy in Wroclaw and since 1824 in Berlin. He attended lectures by Paul Erman, Enne Heeren Dirksen, but also for the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, where he made remarkable transcripts, one of which has recently been transcribed and published ( on philosophy of nature).

Easter 1826, he qualified as a lecturer in Königsberg, where he received in 1828 as an associate professor of physics. In September 1829 he went to Berlin, taught at the Friedrich- Wilhelms -Gymnasium and later at the School of Artillery and the Royal Commercial Institute. In 1837 he was inducted into the Academy of Sciences and appointed in 1845 as full professor at the Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität.

Dove is considered the founder of the modern science of meteorology and weather forecast., Drawn up by him and named after him, the law of rotation of the winds, the so-called Dovesche law, was long regarded as general wind theory to Christoph Buys- Ballot 1860 the general law formulated Malabar wind. Dove is also considered the discoverer of the phenomenon of binaural beats that he describes in his timbered Repertory of Physics ( Volume 3, 1839). He invented a polariscope, the differential inductor, according to the principle of which in the 20th century worked the first metal detectors, and a Rotationspolariskop.

The Meteorological Institute, founded in 1846 headed Dove from 1849 until his death. He is buried in the graveyard of St. Nicholas and St. Mary's church in Berlin 's Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood, close to People's Park Friedrichshain.

His son, Alfred Dove was a historian, Richard Wilhelm Dove canon.

Honors

The British Royal Society drew Heinrich Dove 1853 from the Copley Medal. In addition, Dove was taken on January 24, 1860 in the Prussian Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts. On September 20, 1867 he was the Vice-Chancellor. Dove was elected a member of the Leopoldina also in 1860.

According to him the Dovestraße and the Dove bridge near the Technical University in Berlin- Charlottenburg and the lunar craters are named Dove. A large bay in East Greenland bears his honor the name of Dove Bugt. August Petermann named one of the located in Bastian Hinlopen Strait Islands to Dove. This turned out later but as promontory of Langeøya out and is therefore called today Doveneset.

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