Anton Oberbeck Explained

Anton Oberbeck (25 March 1846 – 23 October 1900) was a German physicist from Berlin.

He studied at Heidelberg and the University of Berlin, obtaining his doctorate from the latter in 1868. From 1870 to 1878 he was a teacher at Sophien-Realgymnasium in Berlin, during which time, he participated in the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71). He lectured at Halle and Karlsruhe and conducted research at the University of Greifswald (1885–1895), and later at the University of Tübingen.^[1]

Oberbeck was the first scientist to record the resonance curve in his 1885 paper, ‘On a phenomenon with electrical oscillations which is similar to resonance’. ^[2]

Published works

• Über die sogenannte Magnetisirungskonstante, 1868 (graduate thesis)  - On the so-called magnetic constant.
• Über eine Methode, die Leitungsfähigkeit von Flüssigkeiten für Electricität zu bestimmen, 1874  - On a method for determining the conductivity of liquids involving electricity.
• Ueber stationäre Flüssigkeitsbewegungen mit Berücksichtigung der inneren Reibung. J. reine angew. Math. 81 (1876) 62–80.
• Über die Fortpflanzung der magnetischen Induction im weichen Eisen, 1878 (habilitation thesis)  - On the propagation of magnetic induction in soft iron.
• Über die Bewegungen der Luft an der Erdoberfläche, 1882  - On the movements of air at the surface.
• Über die Bewegungserscheinungen der Atmosphaere, 1888  - On the phenomena of motion of the atmosphere.
• Über Licht und Leuchten, 1895  - On lighting and lamps.^[3]
• Ueber den Verlauf der electrischen Schwingungen bei den Tesla’schen Versuchen. Annalen der Physik und Chemie, Vol. 55, 1895.  - About the behavior of electrical oscillations in the Tesla experiments.

Notes and References

1. http://www.catalogus-professorum-halensis.de/oberbeckanton.html Catalogus-professorum-halensis
2. Web site: Buchanan . Mark . Going into Resonance . nature.com . 20 March 2024.
3. https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Anton+Oberbeck%22&gws_rd=ssl Google Search