About Rudolph Franz
Lived 1826 – 1902 (aged 76). Rudolph Franz was a German physicist.
Rudolph Franz (December 16, 1826 in Berlin – December 31, 1902 in Berlin) was a German physicist.
Life Franz studied math and natural sciences at the University of Bonn and got his doctorate in 1850. He started working as a teacher in Berlin the same year.
His research led to his habilitation in 1857 at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Until 1865 he was teaching physical sciences (especially thermodynamics).
He became known for his collaboration with Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann, with whom he discovered the Wiedemann-Franz law in 1853, which relates the thermal conductivity and electrical conductivity with each other.
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German physicist (1826-1902)
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Rudolph Franz was born on 16 December 1826 in Berlin.
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Rudolph Franz died on 31 December 1902 in Berlin.
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Rudolph Franz was a physicist.
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