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Friedrich Paschen

Date of Birth 22-January-1865
Place of Birth Schwerin
(Germany, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)
Nationality Germany
Profession Physicist
Louis Karl Heinrich Friedrich Paschen, was a German physicist, known for his work on electrical discharges. He is also known for the Paschen series, a series of hydrogen spectral lines in the infrared region that he first observed in 1908. He established the now widely used Paschen curve in his article "Über die zum Funkenübergang in Luft, Wasserstoff und Kohlensäure bei verschiedenen Drücken erforderliche Potentialdifferenz".

Awards by Friedrich Paschen

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1928


Rumford Medal
(For his contributions to the knowledge of spectra.)