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Nationality
  
Denmark

Fields
  
Physics, Acoustics


Known for
  
Larsen effect

Name
  
Soren Larsen

Soren Absalon Larsen

Born
  
5 April 1871 Norre Aaby, Denmark (
1871-04-05
)

Died
  
2 January 1957(1957-01-02) (aged 85) Gentofte, Denmark

Institutions
  
Technical University of Denmark

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Søren Absalon Larsen (April 5, 1871 – January 2, 1957) was a Danish physicist who worked in the field of electroacoustics and is best known for giving his name to the Larsen effect.

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Absalon Larsen was originally MSc. Philosophy and taught theology, then he began to study physics. He subsequently joined to assist Professor Prytz in the organization of a new exercise course in electronics for mechanical engineers. He was employed at the Polytechnic college, first as a lecturer, later as a professor of electrical engineering. From 1937 he was chairman of the electrical engineering group under the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences.

More biographical detail exists in the Dansk Biografisk Leksikon and the Nordisk Familjebok, in Danish, and the Swedish language version of this Wikipedia article.

Family

Parents: farmer and carpenter, later maltster Hans Christian L. (1834-1920) and Ingeborg Absalonsen (1833–92). In 1900 he married Agnes Hedevig Elisabeth Munch (born 11.06.1874 in Haslemere, died 20.9.1953 in Gentofte), of the merchant Peter Jacob M. (1834-1914) and Charlotte Margaret Adler (1842-1926).

Education

  • 1890: Student
  • 1891: Cand. Phil
  • 1896 - 1897: Assistant Professor K. Prytz (Peter Kristian Prytz, 1851-1929)
  • 1898: Copenhagen University gold medal for thesis on Electrical Conductivities of Amalgamates
  • 1898 - 1903: Assistant at Polytechnic College Physical Laboratory
  • 1903 - 1906: Associate Professor of electrical engineering at the Polytechnic College
  • 1906 - 1941: Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Technical University
  • 1951: Honorary Doctorate, Technical University of Denmark

    • Publications

  • AC 1 + 2" 1923 (book)
  • Messungen von vagabondierenden Stromen in Gas-und Wasserrohren" 1901 (journal article) ~ Measurement of Stray Electrical Current Effects in Gas and Water Pipes.
  • A. Larsen, “Ein akustischer Wechselstromerzeuger mit regulierbarer Periodenzahl für schwache Ströme,” Elektrotech. Z., ETZ 32, pp. 284–285, Mar. 1911.
  • WorldCat Entries
  • Sagen mod praesten i Vejlby og de sager, der fulgte by Absalon Larsen (Book)
  • Telegrafonen og den Traadløse og Opfinderparret Valdemar Poulsen og P. O. Pedersen by Absalon Larsen (Book)
  • Naturfredning i Frederiksborg amt by Absalon Larsen (Book)
  • Methodical classification of international definitions : A paper read before the special committee on nomenclature, a their meeting in Cologne, March 1913 by Absalon Larsen (Book)
  • Om Radioforstyrrelser og Midler derimod (Book)
  • The Discovery of electromagnetism made in the year 1820 by H. C. Oersted by Absalon Larsen (Book)

    • References

    Søren Absalon Larsen Wikipedia
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