Article: Krōnig, August Karl

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Kr ō nig, August Karl

( b . Schildesche, Westphalia, Germany, 20 September 1822; d . Berlin, Germany, 5 June 1879)

physics .

Remarkably little is known about Kr ö nig, who is commonly recognized as the orginator of the kinetic theory of gases. The sixth of the seven children of a country pastor, he entered the University of Bonn in 1839. He chose to study the physical sciences only after transferring to Berlin where he completed his doctoral dissertation ( De acidi chromici salibus crystallinus ) in 1845. One of the fifty-three original members gathered by Gustav Magnus to form the Berlin Physikalische Gesellschaft in 1845, Kr ö nig served as secretary in 1848. He edited the ...

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