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August beer biography
August Beer
German Jewish mathematician, physicist, and chemist (1825–1863)
August Beer (German:[beːɐ̯]; 31 July 1825 – 18 November 1863) was a German physicist, chemist, and mathematician of Jewish descent.[1]
Biography
Beer was born in Trier, where he studied mathematics and natural sciences.
Beer was educated at the technical school and gymnasium of his native town until 1845, when he went to Bonn to study mathematics and the sciences under the mathematician and physicist Julius Plücker, whose assistant he became later.
In 1848 he won the prize for his essay, "De Situ Axium Opticorum in Crystallis Biaxibus," and obtained the degree of Ph.D. Two years later he was appointed lecturer at the University of Bonn.
In 1852, Beer published a paper on the absorption of red light in coloured aqueous solutions of various salts.[2] Beer makes use of the fact, derived from Bouguer's[3] and Lambert's absorption laws,[4] that the