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Friedrich Ernst Dorn (27 July – 16 December ) was a German physicist who was the first to discover that a radioactive substance, later named radon, is....
Friedrich Ernst Dorn
German physicist and first to discover radioactive substance emitted from radon
Friedrich Ernst Dorn (27 July 1848 – 16 December 1916) was a Germanphysicist who was the first to discover that a radioactive substance, later named radon, is emitted from radium.
Life and work
Dorn was born in Guttstadt (Dobre Miasto), Province of Prussia (nowadays Warmia in Poland), and died in Halle, Province of Saxony. He was educated at Königsberg and went on to teach at the university level.
Ernst Dorn: 2 exhibitions from Nov - Sep , exhibition venues worldwide of artist Ernst Dorn, Exhibition History, Summary of records.In 1885, at Halle University, Dorn took over the position of personal ordinariusprofessor for theoretical physics from Anton Oberbeck. Since Dorn was already an ordinarius professor,[1] he was allowed to assume the title so as to not appear as having been demoted.[2] In 1895, Dorn succeeded Hermann Knoblauch at Halle as the ordinarius professor for experimental physics[3] and director of the physics institute.
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