Emil Lenz

Emil Lenz
Born
Heinrich Friedrich Emil Lenz

(1804-02-12)12 February 1804
Dorpat, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire
(now Tartu, Estonia)
Died10 February 1865(1865-02-10) (aged 60)
Rome, Papal States
(now Italy)
Alma materUniversity of Dorpat
Known forLenz's law
Joule–Lenz law
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsSaint Petersburg State University
Articles about
Electromagnetism
Solenoid
Electrostatics
Magnetostatics
Electrodynamics
Electrical network
Magnetic circuit
Covariant formulation
Scientists

Heinrich Friedrich Emil Lenz (/lɛnts/; German: [lɛnts]; also Emil Khristianovich Lenz, Russian: Эмилий Христианович Ленц; 12 February 1804 – 10 February 1865), usually cited as Emil Lenz[1][2] or Heinrich Lenz in some countries, was a Baltic German and Russian physicist who is most noted for formulating Lenz's law in electrodynamics in 1834.[3]

  1. ^ I. Grattan-Guinness (ed.), Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences, Volume 2, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003, p. 1213.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Lezhneva was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Lenz, E. (1834), "Ueber die Bestimmung der Richtung der durch elektodynamische Vertheilung erregten galvanischen Ströme", Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 107 (31), pp. 483–494. A partial translation of the paper is available in Magie, W. M. (1963), A Source Book in Physics, Harvard: Cambridge MA, pp. 511–513.