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Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
Angstrom
Britannica 11thANGSTROM, ANDERS JONAS (1814-1874), Swedish physicist, was born on the i3th of August 1814 at Logdo, Medelpad, Sweden. He was educated at Upsala University, where in 1839 he became privat docent in physics. In 1842 he went to Stockholm Observatory in order to ...
Vol. 2, pp. 42-42
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Astronomy
Britannica 11th... ter was barely missed by W. A. Miller in 1845, by L. Foucault in 1849, by A. J. Angstrom in 1853, by Balfour Stewart in 1858; while Sir George Stokes held the solution of the problem in the Ktrcbboff. h°l'ow of his hand from 1852 onward. But it was the synthet ...
Vol. 2, pp. 800-818
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