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| | TIS: Poggendorff, Johann Ch. - J. C. Poggendorff - Biographisch-literarisches Handwörterbuch der exakten ... |
 | | With these words, written in 1863 at the start of the "Pro- and epilogue by the author", Johann Christian Poggendorff presented the first volume of his work to the reader, a work that was to become "the Poggendorff". |
 | | The author, a physicist and extraordinary professor at the University of Berlin, is still known today in the field of mechanics as the inventor of the Poggendorff Scale. |
 | | His "Biographisch-literarisches Handwörterbuch der exakten Naturwissenschaften" (Concise Biographic-Literary Dictionary of the Exact Sciences) is a reference steeped in tradition, that has been publishing "accounts of the lives and achievements of mathematicians, astronomers, physicists, chemists, mineralogists, geologists, biologists" and scientists from other disciplines since 1863. |
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