Karl Eugen Guthe

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Karl Eugen Guthe (1866-1915) was an American physicist. He was born at Hanover, Germany, and was educated at the Hanover Technical School and at the universities of Strassburg, Berlin, and Marburg. Moving to the United States in 1892, he taught physics at the University of Michigan, where, after four years as professor at Iowa State College, he became professor in 1909 and dean of the Graduate Department in 1912. He was a member of the jury of awards at the St. Louis Exposition in 1904 and was vice president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1908. He is the author of a Manual of Physical Measurements (1902; third edition, 1912), with J. O. Reed; Laboratory Exercises with Primary and Storage Cells (1903); Textbook of Physics (1908; second edition, 1909); College Physics (1911), with J. O. Reed; Definitions in Physics (1913); and contributions on physics and electricity in scientific journals.

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