Anders Jonas Ångström
1814 – 1874 · aged 60
Swedish physicist
- Born
- 13 Aug 1814 · Lögdö bruk
- Died
- 21 Jun 1874 · Uppsala Cathedral Assembly
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- 13 Aug 1814BornBorn in Lögdö bruk
- 1870AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
- 1872AwardRumford Medal
- 21 Jun 1874DiedDied in Uppsala Cathedral Assembly
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Major world events during their lifetime (1814 – 1874).
- 1814 – 1815Congress of Vienna
- 1853 – 1856Crimean War
- 1857 – 1858Indian Rebellion of 1857
- 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
Biography
Anders Jonas Ångström (Swedish: [ˈânːdɛʂ ˈjûːnas ˈɔ̂ŋːstrœm]; 13 August 1814 – 21 June 1874) was a Swedish physicist and one of the founders of the science of spectroscopy.
Ångström is also well known for his studies of astrophysics, heat transfer, terrestrial magnetism, and the aurora borealis. In 1852, Ångström formulated in Optiska undersökningar (Optical investigations), a law of absorption, later modified somewhat and known as Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation.
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