Karl Eugen Guthe

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name = Karl Eugen Guthe


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caption = Karl Eugen Guthe (1866-1915)
birth_date = March 5, 1866
birth_place = Hannover, Germany
death_date = September 15, 1915
death_place = Ashland, Oregon, USA
residence = flag|USA
citizenship = German later American
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ethnicity = German
fields = Physicist
workplaces = University of Michigan
Iowa State College
alma_mater = University of Strasbourg
Humboldt University of Berlin
University of Marburg
doctoral_advisor = Hermann Paasche
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doctoral_students = Neal H. Williams
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known_for = Physics textbooks
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Karl Eugen Guthe (1866-1915) was a German-born American physicist notable for his work on aspects of electricity.

Education

He was born in Hanover, Germany, and was educated at the Hanover Technical School and at the universities of Strassburg, Berlin, and Marburg. He received his PhD from the University of Marburg in 1892 for a thesis entitled: "Ueber das Mechanische Telephone" ("On the Mechanical Telephone").

Career

Moving to the United States in 1892, he taught physics at the University of Michigan, where, after four years as professor at Iowa State College, he became professor in 1909 and dean of the Graduate Department in 1912. He was a member of the jury of awards at the St. Louis Exposition in 1904 and was vice president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1908.

Books by Guthe

He is the author of a "Manual of Physical Measurements" (1902; third edition, 1912), with J. O. Reed; "Laboratory Exercises with Primary and Storage Cells" (1903); "Textbook of Physics" (1908; second edition, 1909); "College Physics" (1911), with J. O. Reed; "Definitions in Physics" (1913); and contributions on physics and electricity in scientific journals.

References

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External links

* [http://bentley.umich.edu/exhibits/myumich/myumich_search.php?id=25 Guthe at Michigan]
* [http://informationretirementblog1.informationretirement.info/?p=911 Guthe obituary]
* [http://libserv.aip.org:81/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!26219!0&profile=newcustom-aipnbl Guthe at AIP]
* [http://www.umich.edu/~sacua/SenAssb/regup/regup07-07.pdf Umich history with mention of Guthe]
* [http://www.e-yearbook.com/yearbooks/University_Iowa_Hawkeye_Yearbook/1908/Page_26.html University of Iowa, class of 1908]
* [http://www.e-yearbook.com/yearbooks/University_Michigan_Michiganensian_Yearbook/1914/Page_38.html University of Michigan, class of 1914]
* [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=127040 Guthe's math genealogy]