Johann Schweigger

Johann Schweigger
Born Johann Salomo Christoph Schweigger
(1779-04-08)8 April 1779
Erlangen, Brandenburg-Bayreuth
Died 6 September 1857(1857-09-06) (aged 78)
Halle, Prussian Saxony
Fields Physics, chemistry, mathematics
Institutions Bayreuth Gymnasium
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
University of Halle-Wittenberg
Alma mater University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Doctoral advisor Franz August Wolf
Other academic advisors Georg Friedrich Hildebrandt
Karl Christian Landsdorff
Johann Tobias Mayer
Doctoral students Wilhelm Eduard Weber
Other notable students Franz Wilhelm Schweigger-Seidel
Known for First galvanometer

Johann Salomo Christoph Schweigger (8 April 1779 – 6 September 1857) was a German chemist, physicist, and professor of mathematics born in Erlangen.

In 1811, he proposed the name "Chlorine" for the substance discovered in 1774 by Carl Wilhelm Scheele and properly identified by Humphry Davy as an element in 1810.

In 1820 he built the first sensitive galvanometer, naming it after Luigi Galvani. He created this instrument, acceptable for actual measurement as well as detection of small amounts of electric current, by wrapping a coil of wire around a graduated compass.

He is the father of Karl Ernst Theodor Schweigger and adopted one of his students Franz Wilhelm Schweigger-Seidel as his own son.

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  1. Publications copied from an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia.

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