Augustus Matthiessen

Augustus Matthiessen
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Nascimento	2 de janeiro de 1831 Londres
Morte	6 de outubro de 1870 (39 anos) Londres
Sepultamento	Cemitério de Kensal Green
Nacionalidade	britânico
Cidadania	Reino Unido da Grã-Bretanha e Irlanda
Alma mater	Universidade de Giessen
Ocupação	químico, físico
Distinções	Medalha Real (1869)
Empregador(a)	Universidade de Heidelberg
Orientador(a)(es/s)	Johann Heinrich Buff
Campo(s)	química
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Augustus Matthiessen FRS (Londres, 2 de janeiro de 1831 — Londres, 6 de outubro de 1870) foi um químico e físico britânico.

Obras

• Augustus Matthiessen, "On the electric conducting power of the metals", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, vol. 148 (1858), pp. 383-387.
• Augustus Matthiessen and Carol Vogt, "On the influence of temperature on the electric conductive-power of thallium and iron", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, vol. 153 (1863), pp. 369-383.
• Augustus Matthiessen and Carol Vogt, "On the influence of temperature on the electric conductive-power of alloys", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, vol. 154 (1864), pp. 167-200.
• A. Matthiessen and G.C. Foster, "Researches into the chemical constitution of narcotine and its products of decomposition Part I", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, vol. 153 (1863), pp. 345-367.
• A. Matthiessen and G.C. Foster, "Researches into the chemical constitution of narcotine and its products of decomposition Part II", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, vol. 157 (1867), pp. 657-667.
• Augustus Matthiessen, "Researches into the chemical constitution of narcotine and its products of decomposition Part III", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, vol. 159 (1869), pp. 661-665.
• Augustus Matthiessen and C.R.A. Wright, "Researches into the chemical constitution of narcotine and its products of decomposition Part IV", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, vol. 159 (1869), pp. 667-678.
• Rudolf de Bruyn Ouboter, "Heike Kamerlingh Onnes's discovery of superconductivity", Scientific American, March 1997, pp. 98-103. (A figure mentioning Matthiessen's 1864 paper appears on page 102.)

Ligações externas

• Entry for Augustus Matthiessen in Dictionary of National Biography (1903)
• Entry for Matthiesson in the Royal Society's Library and Archive catalogue's details of Fellows (accessed 20 April 2008)
• Obituary of Augustus Matthiessen in Meetings of the Royal Society (pp 615-617)

Precedido por Alfred Russel Wallace e George Salmon

Medalha Real 1869 com Thomas Maclear

Sucedido por Thomas Davidson e William Hallowes Miller