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'''August Beer''' ([[July 31]], [[1825]] - [[November 18]], [[1863]]) was a [[Germany|German]] [[physicist]] and [[mathematician]].
Beer was born in [[Trier]], where he studied [[mathematics]] and [[natural science]]s. He worked for [[Julius Plücker]] in [[Bonn]] afterwards, where he earned a Ph.D. in 1848 and became a lecturer in [[1850]]. In 1854, Beer published his book ''Einleitung in die höhere Optik''. His findings, together with those of [[Johann Heinrich Lambert]], make up the [[Beer-Lambert law]]. Beer became a professor of mathematics at Bonn in 1855.
== Selected writings ==
* {{cite book | author = Beer, August | title = Einleitung in die Elektrostatik, die Lehre vom Magnetismus und die Elektrodynamik | year = 1865 | publisher = Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn | location = Braunschweig | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=Sh0AAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR7&dq=physics+Beer+trier&as_brr=1#PPR3,M2 }}
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