Heinrich Wilhelm Dove
1803–79
German physicist and meteorologist. Extraordinary professor of physics at the University of Königsberg, 1828; professor of physics at the University of Berlin, 1845. Editor of Repertorium der Physik, 1837–49. Director of the Prussian Institute of Meterology from its foundation in 1849. Proposed that warm and cold air currents affected weather conditions in temperate climates.
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DBE
DSB
NDB.
Bibliography
DBE: Deutsche biographische Enzyklopädie. Edited by Walter Killy et al. 12 vols. in 14. Munich: K. G. Saur. 1995–2000.
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
NDB: Neue deutsche Biographie. Under the auspices of the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. 27 vols. (A–Wettiner) to date. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. 1953–.
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