biography
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Hittorf, Johann Wilhelm
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| male
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| lived:
| (1824–1914)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Bonn, W Germany. He became professor of physics and chemistry at Münster (1879–89). He was the first to determine the charge-carrying capacity of ions, which brought greater understanding of electrochemical reactions, and he also studied electrical discharges in gases. |
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