Kupfer Adolf Yakovlevich( physicist)
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Biography Kupfer Adolf Yakovlevich
(1799 - 1865). He studied in Berlin, Paris and GцІttingen. He was a professor of chemistry and physics at Kazan University. From 1828, Mr.. member of the Academy of Sciences of Mineralogy, 1840, Mr.. - Physics. He was director of the Mineralogical Museum, and arranged them as the St. Petersburg observatory, in which the focus of meteorological observations throughout the empire. Establish and preparing normal Russian actions, it is described in "Travaux de la Commision pour fixer les mesures et les poids etc." (St. Petersburg, 1841). Its main works: "Neue Thatsachen zur Kenntniss des Magnetismus" (Kazan, . 1826); "Voyage dans les environs du mont Elbrous dans le Caucase" (St. Petersburg, . 1830); "Handbuch der rechnenden Krystallonomie" (St. Petersburg, . 1831): "Voyage dans l'Oural entrepris en 1828 (St. Petersburg, . 1833, . an atlas), "Guide to the labors of magnetic and meteorological observations" (St. Petersburg, . 1835; French, . 1836; 2-ed., . 1839); "psychrometric and barometric table" (St. Petersburg, . 1841; 2-ed., . 1860; the same in French, . 1841), "Conclusions of the meteorological observations, . made per Rossiyskom State "(St. Petersburg, . 1846), "Experimental studies of elasticity of metals" (St. Petersburg, . 1860) and much more, . - List of works and biography in Kupffer M. Rykacheva "Historical Sketch Central Physical Observatory 1849 - 1899" (h. I, St. Petersburg., 1899).
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