Name Johann Schweigger Role Chemist | ||
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Born Johann Salomo Christoph Schweigger
8 April 1779
Erlangen, Brandenburg-Bayreuth ( 1779-04-08 ) Institutions Bayreuth Gymnasium
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
University of Halle-Wittenberg Alma mater University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Other academic advisors Georg Friedrich Hildebrandt
Karl Christian Landsdorff
Johann Tobias Mayer Other notable students Franz Wilhelm Schweigger-Seidel Died September 6, 1857, Halle, Germany Education University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Children Karl Ernst Theodor Schweigger Fields Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics Notable students Wilhelm Eduard Weber, Rudolf Clausius Similar People Wilhelm Eduard Weber, Johann Tobias Mayer, Rudolf Clausius, Nicolas Leonard Sadi Car | ||
Doctoral advisor Franz August Wolf Doctoral students Wilhelm Eduard Weber | ||
Johann Salomo Christoph Schweigger (8 April 1779 – 6 September 1857) was a German chemist, physicist, and professor of mathematics born in Erlangen.
In 1811, he proposed the name "Chlorine" for the substance discovered in 1774 by Carl Wilhelm Scheele and properly identified by Humphry Davy as an element in 1810.
In 1820 he built the first sensitive galvanometer, naming it after Luigi Galvani. He created this instrument, acceptable for actual measurement as well as detection of small amounts of electric current, by wrapping a coil of wire around a graduated compass.
He is the father of Karl Ernst Theodor Schweigger and adopted one of his students Franz Wilhelm Schweigger-Seidel as his own son.
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