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Ernst Pringsheim Sr.

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Ernst Pringsheim Sr. (11 July 1859 – 28 June 1917) was a German physicist. He was born and died in Breslau. He made, together with Otto Lummer, important measurements of the blackbody radiation spectrum, leading to Max Planck's quantum hypothesis in 1900.

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  • Ueber das Radiometer. Berlin: Lange, 1882. Berlin, Universität, Dissertation, 1882.
  • Eine Wellenlängenmessung im ultrarothen Sonnenspectrum. In: Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Neue Folge, Band XVIII, (1883).
  • (with Otto Lummer:) A Determination of the ratio k of the specific heat for air, oxygen, carbon-dioxide and hydrogen. (= Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge; 29,6 = 1126 Hodgkins Fund) Washington : Smithsonian Inst., 1898.
  • Vorlesungen über die Physik der Sonne. Leipzig: Teubner, 1910.
  • Fluoreszenz und Phosphoreszenz im Lichte der neueren Atomtheorie, 1928.

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