biography
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Reichenbach, Karl, Freiherr (Baron) von
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pronunciation:
[riykhenbakh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1788–1869)
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| biography:
| Natural philosopher and industrialist, born in Stuttgart, SW Germany. He discovered paraffin (1830) and creosote (1833), and after studying animal magnetism discovered, as he thought, a new force which he called Od, intermediate between electricity, magnetism, heat, and light, and recognizable only by the nerves of sensitive persons. He wrote on the geology of Moravia, on magnetism, and several works on ‘odic force’ (1852–58). |
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