Ernst Pringsheim Sr.

For other people named Pringlsheim, see Ernst Pringsheim Jr. and Pringsheim.

Ernst Pringsheim Sr. (11 July 1859 – 28 June 1917) was a German physicist. He was born and died in Breslau. Alongside Otto Lummer, he conducted significant measurements of the blackbody radiation spectrum, leading to Max Planck's quantum hypothesis in 1900.[1]

Literary works

  • Ueber das Radiometer. Berlin: Lange, 1882. Berlin, Universität, Dissertation, 1882.
  • Eine Wellenlängenmessung im ultrarothen Sonnenspectrum. In: Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Neue Folge, Band XVIII, (1883).
  • (with Otto Lummer:) A Determination of the ratio k of the specific heat for air, oxygen, carbon-dioxide and hydrogen. (= Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge; 29,6 = 1126 Hodgkins Fund) Washington : Smithsonian Inst., 1898.
  • Vorlesungen über die Physik der Sonne. Leipzig: Teubner, 1910.
  • Fluoreszenz und Phosphoreszenz im Lichte der neueren Atomtheorie, 1928.

References

  1. ^ "Letters to and from four great minds of the University of Wrocław". www.europeana.eu. 9 June 2023. Retrieved 25 May 2025.


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