Albert von Ettingshausen Scientist

Albert von Ettingshausen (1850-1932) was an Austrian physicist.He was professor of physics at Graz University of Technology, where he also taught electrical engineering.Earlier he was an assistant to Ludwig Boltzmann at the University of Graz.In 1886, he and his colleague Walther Nernst, then a PhD student at the University of Graz, jointly discovered the thermoelectric phenomena now known as the Ettingshausen effect and Nernst effect.

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Albert von Ettingshausen
Birth dateJanuary 01, 1850
Birth place
Vienna , Austria
Date of deathJanuary 01, 1932
Place of death
Graz , Austria

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