Darwin Correspondence Project

German physicist and chemist. Extraordinary professor of "Technologie", University of Berlin, 1834; professor of physics, 1845. In 1840, set up a laboratory in his home and gave several lecture courses. Founding member of the Deutsche physikalische Gesellschaft, 1845. In 1863, opened a physics laboratory in his new home, where he taught until his death. Worked on the chemistry of blood gases and respiration, and the physics of heat expansion; discovered the "Magnus-Effekt" in ballistics.