biography
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Seebeck, Thomas Johann
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| male
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| lived:
| (1770–1831)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Tallin, Estonia. He studied medicine at Berlin and the University of Göttingen, then abandoned medical practice for research in physics. A member of the Berlin Academy, in 1822 he showed that if a circuit is made of a loop of two metals with two junctions, then when the junctions are at different temperatures a current flows; he had thus discovered the thermoelectric effect, now much used in thermocouples for temperature measurement. |
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