Wilhelm von Bezold

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm von Bezold
Portrait of Wilhelm von Bezold
Born(1837-06-21)June 21, 1837
Munich
DiedFebruary 17, 1907(1907-02-17) (aged 69)
OccupationsPhysicist, meteorologist
Known forBezold effect, Bezold-Brücke shift

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm von Bezold (21 June 1837 – 17 February 1907)[1] was a German physicist and meteorologist born in Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria. He is best known for discovering the Bezold effect and the Bezold–Brücke shift.

Bezold studied mathematics and physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and the University of Göttingen. He taught meteorology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München from 1861, becoming a professor in 1866. In 1868, he began teaching at the Polytechnic School of Munich. In 1875, he was named a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.

From 1885 to 1907, he was director of the Prussian Institute of Meteorology at the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin. As a scientist, he was mainly interested in the physics of the atmosphere, and he contributed much to the theory of electrical storms.

Bezold was one of the early researchers of atmospheric thermodynamics. He considered pseudo-adiabatic processes describing air as it is lifted, expands, cools, and eventually condenses and precipitates its water vapor.

It was Bezold's investigations of Lichtenberg dust figures that were useful to Heinrich Rudolf Hertz during his attempt to physically validate Maxwell's mathematical analysis of electromagnetic waves.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Biographie, Deutsche. "Bezold, Wilhelm von - Deutsche Biographie". www.deutsche-biographie.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-08-31.
  2. ↑ Heinrich Hertz "Electric waves: being researches on the propagation of electric action with finite velocity through space"
  • W. von Bezold, Zur Thermodynamik der Atmosphäre. Pts. I, II. Sitz. K. Preuss. Akad. Wissensch. Berlin, pp. 485–522, 1189–1206; Gesammelte Abhandlugen, pp. 91–144. English translation by Abbe, C. The mechanics of the Earth's atmosphere. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, no 843, 1893, 212–242.

Wilhelm von Bezold (1876) The theory of color and its relation to art and art-industry... translated from the German by S. R. Koehler - digital facsimile from the Linda Hall Library


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