Johann Gottlieb Nörremberg

Johann Gottlieb Christian Nörrenberg ( born August 11, 1787 Bach breath now Mountain Town ( North Rhine -Westphalia), † July 20, 1862 in Stuttgart ) was a German physicist.

Life

Nörrenberg came at the age of 14 years as a clerk in the near Gummersbach. Through self-study with the help of a textbook of mathematics, he acquired a good knowledge in this field, so that he could work on the National Survey of Westphalia as a surveyor 1812/13. From 1822 he was employed in Darmstadt as a professor of mathematics at the Grand Ducal Military Academy.

During a three -year stay in Paris from 1829 to 1832, he expanded his knowledge in the field of physics and chemistry. In 1833 he took over as the successor of Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von beans Berger Professor of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy at the University of Tübingen and the management of Tübingen observatory. He dealt with from now on astronomy and optics, where he designed monitoring tools. A developed by him polariscope became the standard instrument of his time.

Nörrenberg who was very practical, designed a wide variety of appliances, including a coffee maker. For his optical instruments he hand cut the lenses. Shortly after the publication of Daguerre invented the process of photographs on silver-plated copper plates ( daguerreotype ) in August 1839 made ​​Nörrenberg to such photographs, of which today is one in Tübingen town museum.

After his retirement in 1851 he lived in Stuttgart, where he died on 20 July 1862.

Spelling of the surname

In many sources the last name of the physicist with "m " instead of " n " is written, that " Nörremberg " instead of " Nörrenberg ". This also applies to sources that were published shortly after the death of the physicist, so that a final determination of the correct spelling is difficult. In the Czech reference Ottuv to link Naucny, published 1888-1943, however, is that the name " Nörremberg " is the wrong spelling.

Works

• Propertys optiques of cristaux à deux axes, Brussels 1835