Albert von Ettingshausen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Albert von Ettingshausen

Austrian physicist

Date of Birth: 30-Mar-1850

Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria

Date of Death: 09-Jun-1932

Profession: physicist, university teacher

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Albert von Ettingshausen (30 March 1850 – 9 June 1932) was an Austrian physicist. He was professor of physics at Graz University of Technology, where he also taught electrical engineering. Earlier he was an assistant to Ludwig Boltzmann at the University of Graz. In 1886, he and his colleague Walther Nernst, then a PhD student at the University of Graz, jointly discovered the thermoelectric phenomena now known as the Ettingshausen effect and Nernst effect.