Johann Georg Tralles, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Johann Georg Tralles

German mathematician and physicist

Date of Birth: 15-Oct-1763

Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany

Date of Death: 19-Nov-1822

Profession: physicist, mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Johann Georg Tralles (October 15, 1763 – November 19, 1822) was a German mathematician and physicist. He was born in Hamburg, Germany and was educated at the University of Göttingen beginning in 1783.
He became a professor at the University of Bern in 1785.
In 1810, he became a professor of mathematics at the University of Berlin. In 1798 he served as the Swiss representative to the French metric convocation, and was a member of its committee on weights and measures.
An iron "committee" meter, a duplicate of the prototype archive meter, was then given as a gift to Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler.
From 1803 until 1805 these two men worked together on a topological survey of the Canton of Bern. In 1819, he discovered the Great Comet of 1819, Comet Tralles, named after him.He was the inventor of the alcoholometer, a device for measuring the amount of alcohol in a liquid. He died in London, England.
The crater Tralles on the Moon is named after him, as is the alcoholometer he invented.