Philipp Carl | |
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Born | Philipp Franz Heinrich Carl 19 June 1837 |
Died | 24 January 1891 | (aged 53)
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | Royal Bavarian Military Training Institutes |
Philipp Franz Heinrich Carl (19 June 1837 – 24 January 1891) was a German physicist.
He was born at Neustadt, Middle Franconia. He studied the exact sciences in Munich as a pupil of Philipp von Jolly and Johann von Lamont (graduation 1860). He then worked as an assistant to Lamont, performing astronomical and geophysical research at the observatory (Universitäts-Sternwarte München). In 1865 he established, and for several years thereafter directed, a workshop for the manufacture of mathematical instruments. In 1869 he was named professor of physics at the Royal Bavarian Military Training Institutes.[1][2]