August Beer 307064 211873725 2008-05-12T14:18:30Z Astrochemist 1252182 [[WP:UNDO|Undid]] revision 211870862 by [[Special:Contributions/76.7.54.52|76.7.54.52]] ([[User talk:76.7.54.52|talk]]) '''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 }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Beer, August}} [[Category:1825 births]] [[Category:1863 deaths]] [[Category:German physicists]] [[Category:People from the Rhine Province]] [[Category:People from Trier]] {{Germany-scientist-stub}} {{Germany-physicist-stub}} {{chemist-stub}} {{Germany-mathematician-stub}} [[de:August Beer]] [[fr:August Beer]] [[pl:August Beer]] [[sv:August Beer]]