Auguste Arthur de la Rive, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Auguste Arthur de la Rive

Swiss physicist (1801-1873)

Date of Birth: 09-Oct-1801

Place of Birth: Geneva, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland

Date of Death: 27-Nov-1873

Profession: politician, physicist, university teacher

Nationality: Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Prof Auguste Arthur de la Rive ForMemRS, HFRSE (October 9, 1801 – November 27, 1873) was a Swiss physicist.
He was President of he Helvetic Society of Natural Science in 1845. De la Rive's first scientific publication was on the influence of the Earth's magnetism upon a movable frame traversed by a voltaic current, published in 1822, and followed by a memoir upon Caustics, which appeared in 1823.
Over a period of fifty years, De la Rive made numerous contributions to science, which were published in the Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève or in the Bibliothèque universelle de Genève.