Emil Wiechert, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Emil Wiechert

German geophysicist and seismologist

Date of Birth: 26-Dec-1861

Place of Birth: Sovetsk, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia

Date of Death: 19-Mar-1928

Profession: astronomer, physicist, university teacher, seismologist, geophysicist

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Emil Johann Wiechert (26 December 1861 – 19 March 1928) was a German physicist and geophysicist who made many contributions to both fields, including presenting the first verifiable model of a layered structure of the Earth and being among the first to discover the electron.
He went on to become the world's first Professor of Geophysics at the University of Göttingen.