Eduard Grüneisen

Eduard Grüneisen (26 May 1877 – 5 April 1949) was a German physicist and the co-eponym of Mie–Grüneisen equation of state.

Eduard Grüneisen
Born26 May 1877
Giebichenstein, German Empire
Died5 April 1949 (1949-04-06) (aged 71)
Marburg, Germany
NationalityGerman
Known forGrüneisen parameter
Bloch–Grüneisen temperature
Mie–Grüneisen equation of state

Grüneisen was born in Giebichenstein.

The Grüneisen parameter was named after him.

Since 1929 he was together with Max Planck editor of Annalen der Physik.[1]

In 1933 Grüneisen signed the Vow of allegiance of the Professors of the German Universities and High-Schools to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialistic State.

Grüneisen died in Marburg, West Germany.

References
  1. "Annalen der Physik - History".


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