biography
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Doppler, Christian Johann
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| male
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| lived:
| (1803–53)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Salzburg, W Austria. He studied at Vienna, where he became professor of physics (1851), and is best known for his explanation of the perceived frequency variation of sound and light waves because of the relative motion of the source and the detector (the Doppler effect). |
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