Karl Eugen Guthe

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Karl Eugen Guthe
Karl Eugen Guthe (1866-1915)
Born	March 5, 1866 Hannover, Germany
Died	September 15, 1915 Ashland, Oregon, USA
Residence	USA
Citizenship	German later American
Fields	Physicist
Institutions	University of Michigan Iowa State College
Alma mater	University of Strasbourg Humboldt University of Berlin University of Marburg
Doctoral advisor	Hermann Paasche
Doctoral students	Neal H. Williams
Known for	Physics textbooks
Influences	Max Planck

Karl Eugen Guthe (5 March 1866 - 10 September 1915) was a German-born American physicist notable for his work on aspects of electricity.

Education

He was born in Hanover, Germany, and was educated at the Hanover Technical School and at the universities of Strassburg, Berlin, and Marburg. He received his PhD from the University of Marburg in 1892 for a thesis entitled: Ueber das Mechanische Telephone (On the Mechanical Telephone).

Career

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.

Books by Guthe

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.

Notes

References

Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Guthe, Karl Eugen". Encyclopedia Americana.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Moore, F., eds. (1905). "^{article name needed}". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

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Persondata
Name	Guthe, Karl Eugen
Alternative names
Short description	American physicist
Date of birth	March 5, 1866
Place of birth	Hannover, Germany
Date of death	September 15, 1915
Place of death	Ashland, Oregon, USA

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