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    Carl Alwin Pockels, for whom the Pockels effect was named, was a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Heidelberg. Pockels was born in...
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  • Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels (18 June 1865 – 29 August 1913) was a German physicist. He was born in Italy to Captain Theodore Pockels and Alwine Becker....
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    Agnes Plum (1869–1951), German politician Agnes Pochin (1825–1908), British woman's rights activist Agnes Pockels (1862–1935), German chemist Agnes Blake...
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    scientifically explored by figures such as Benjamin Franklin, Lord Rayleigh, and Agnes Pockels, collectively deepening the scientific knowledge of surface tension...
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  • Irving Langmuir while working for General Electric. Earlier work by Agnes Pockels influenced the development of the trough. Zeolite Y Zeolite Y, a molecular...
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    stage for Irving Langmuir who continued to work and confirmed Pockels’ results. Using Pockels’ idea, he developed the Langmuir (or Langmuir–Blodgett) trough...
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    Agnes Pockels, gets help from Rayleigh to publish her first paper on nature of surface tension. There she first introduces the concept of the Pockels...
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    has adopted this correlation as an international standard guideline. Agnes Pockels—early surface sciences researcher Anti-fog Capillary wave—short waves...
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    to the Royal Agricultural Society. 1880: Self-taught German chemist Agnes Pockels began investigating surface tension, becoming a pioneering figure in...
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    bacteriologist Mary Engle Pennington (1872–1952), American chemist Agnes Pockels (1862–1935), German chemist Anna Sundström (1785–1871), Swedish chemist...
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  • Jan Christoph Plefka Martin Bodo Plenio Julius Plücker Agnes Pockels Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels Johann Christian Poggendorff Dieter Pohl Robert Pohl Fritz-Albert...
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  • 23 – David Hilbert (died 1943), German mathematician February 14 – Agnes Pockels (died 1935), German chemist (in Venice) March 14 – Vilhelm Bjerknes...
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    (1175–1218), Holy Roman Emperor Bernhard Plockhorst (1825–1907), painter Agnes Pockels (1862–1935), chemist Wilhelm Raabe (1831–1910), writer Friedrich Adolf...
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  • entomologist and writer of fiction. Amelia Laskey, ornithologist. Agnes Pockels, German chemist whose research was fundamental to establishing modern...
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  • 8 October – Hans Tropsch, German chemist (born 1889) 21 November – Agnes Pockels, German chemist (b. 1862) 21 December – Kurt Tucholsky, German-journalist...
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    ISSN 0370-1662. Rayleigh; Pockels, A. (1891). "Surface Tension". Nature. 43 (1115): 437–439. doi:10.1038/043437c0. ISSN 0028-0836. Pockels, Agnes (1892). "On the...
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  • biology at the University of Oxford (and achieve first class honours). Agnes Pockels first publishes the results of her researches into surface tension....
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  • Earth Age of the universe Aggregated diamond nanorod Agitator (device) Agnes Pockels Agrophysics Aharon Katzir Aharonov–Bohm effect Ahmet Yıldız Aichelburg–Sexl...
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    conservation laws) Marguerite Perey (1909–1975) Melba Phillips (1907–2004) Agnes Pockels (1862–1935) Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina (1899–1999), Russian physicist...
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  • Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, British admiral (b. 1859) November 21 – Agnes Pockels, German chemist (b. 1862) November 25 – Lij Iyasu of Ethiopia, deposed...
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  • scientist) Adrienne Mayor Aglaonike Agnes Arber Agnes Fay Morgan Research Award Agnes Mary Clerke Agnes Pockels Agnes Sime Baxter Agnodice Aisling Judge...
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  • Oskar Piloty Adolf Pinner Eugen Piwowarsky Karl Friedrich Plattner Agnes Pockels John Polanyi Theodor Poleck Klaus Praefcke Horst Prinzbach Bernhard...
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  • Fairfield Osborn (born 1857), American paleontologist. November 21 – Agnes Pockels (born 1862), German chemist. December 10 – Sir John Carden, 6th Baronet...
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    (American-born astronomer) in Germany, Amalie Dietrich (naturalist), Agnes Pockels (physicist) in Russia and Sweden, Sofia Kovalevskaya (mathematician)...
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    Biblical Creation. In 1931, Devaux shared the Laura Leonard Prize with Agnes Pockels for their respective investigations of the properties of surface layers...
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  • — Nuclear physics Adolph Nehrkorn — Ornithology Agnes Pockels — Chemistry Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels — Physics Mark Ronan — Mathematics Ferdinand Schneider...
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    1942), biochemist Katharina Paulus (1868-1935), collapsible parachute Agnes Pockels (1862-1935), surface science Margarete Steiff (1847–1909), stuffed animals...
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  • Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel Helga Pilarczyk (1926–2011), operatic soprano Agnes Pockels (1862–1935), chemist Werner Pöls (1926–1989), historian Karl Pohlig...
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  • bacteriologist Mary Engle Pennington (1872–1952), American chemist Agnes Pockels (1862–1935), German chemist Vera Popova (1867–1896), Russian chemist...
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