• 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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    In optics, the Pockels effect, or Pockels electro-optic effect, is a directionally-dependent linear variation in the refractive index of an optical medium...
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    Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels, for whom the Pockels effect was named, was a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Heidelberg. Pockels was...
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    Moritz Schoenflies & Friedrich Pockels), Teubner 1895, Archive, Band 2 (vol. 2), Physikalische Abhandlungen (edited by Friedrich Pockels), 1896, Archive Plücker...
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    given in 1890 by Friedrich Pockels, however this was proved inadequate almost a century later by Nelson & Lax as the description by Pockels only considered...
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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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  • 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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  • properties such as birefringency, or electro-optical features such as the Pockels effect. The point groups are named according to their component symmetries...
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    Gibbs, P.Drude, H.Minkowski, W.Ritz, G.J.Stoney, Osb.Reynolds, Fr.C.Alw.Pockels, V.Schumann, N.Umov, Ernst Pringsheim Sr., M.Smoluchowski, W.Voigt, M.Abraham...
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  • subgroup of the electro-optic effect, and Pockels effect is one of these occurrences. Essentially, the Pockels effect is the change of the material's refractive...
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  • Plummer–Vinson syndrome, Plummer's nail. Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels, German physicist – Pockels effect, Pockels cell. Joel Roberts Poinsett, American politician...
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  • (1883–1947), American Western landscape painter and muralist Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels (1865–1913), German physicist Don Alwin Rajapaksa (1905–1967)...
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  • metric Friedrich Bopp Friedrich Burmeister Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels Friedrich Dessauer Friedrich Ernst Dorn Friedrich Hasenöhrl Friedrich Hopfner...
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  • – David Hilbert (died 1943), German mathematician February 14 – Agnes Pockels (died 1935), German chemist (in Venice) March 14 – Vilhelm Bjerknes (died...
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    Cemetery of Braunschweig was inaugurated on October 1, 1887, by Mayor Wilhelm Pockels and the Lutheran provost General-Superintendent Wilhelm Beste consecrated...
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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. The...
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  • 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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    the linear susceptibility, χ ( 2 ) {\displaystyle \chi ^{(2)}} gives the Pockels effect and second harmonic generation, and χ ( 3 ) {\displaystyle \chi...
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    the Royal Agricultural Society. 1880: Self-taught German chemist Agnes Pockels began investigating surface tension, becoming a pioneering figure in the...
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  • length, mass, time – Max Planck Platonic year – Plato Pockels effect – Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels Pogson ratio – Norman Robert Pogson Poincaré map, section...
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    Plockhorst (1825–1907), painter Agnes Pockels (1862–1935), chemist Wilhelm Raabe (1831–1910), writer Friedrich Adolf Riedesel (1738–1800), commander during...
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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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  • Karl Friedrich Plattner Agnes Pockels John Polanyi Theodor Poleck Klaus Praefcke Horst Prinzbach Bernhard Proskauer Lotte Pusch Karl Friedrich August...
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    proportional to the square modulus of the electric field. These are the Pockels effect and Kerr effect, respectively. However, to achieve these effects...
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  • On 20 August he reached Raschau with his troops and burnt down Enoch Pöckel's heirs’ ironworks estate, which lay in Mittweida's lower end, right on the...
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  • Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel Helga Pilarczyk (1926–2011), operatic soprano Agnes Pockels (1862–1935), chemist Werner Pöls (1926–1989), historian Karl Pohlig (1864–1928)...
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