About Karl Lindman
Lived 1874 – 1952 (aged 77). Karl Lindman was a Finnish physicist.
Karl Ferdinand Lindman (7 June 1874 – 14 February 1952) was a Finnish physicist and educator. Best known for his work on chiral media, he has performed the experimental demonstration of optical rotation of microwaves in an artificial chiral medium in 1914. For the most of his career, he was a professor of physics at Åbo Akademi University.
Biography Karl Ferdinand Lindman was born on 7 June 1874 in Ekenäs, Grand Duchy of Finland to Karl Gustav and Lovisa Lindman. His father was a farmer with clerical duties. Receiving a degree of physics in 1895, Lindman obtained his PhD degree from University of Helsinki in 1901. He briefly resided in Leipzig from 1899 to 1901; his thesis work was partially done in Leipzig University.
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Finnish physicist (1874–1952)
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Karl Lindman was born on 17 June 1874 in Ekenäs.
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Karl Lindman died on 14 February 1952 in Turku.
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Karl Lindman was a physicist.
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Karl Lindman was Finnish.
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