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name: Barkhausen, Heinrich Georg

pronunciation: [bah(r)khowzen]

sex: male
lived: (1881–1956)

biography: Physicist, born in Bremen, NW Germany. In 1911 he was appointed professor of low current technology in the Technische Hochschule, Dresden, and in 1928 was awarded the Heinrich Herz Medal. In 1919 he discovered that the magnetization of iron proceeds in discrete steps and devised a loudspeaker system to render this discontinuity audible (the Barkhausen effect).