Ernst Chladni

Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni (German: [ˈɛʁnst ˈfloːʁɛns ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈkladnɪ]; 30 November 1756 – 3 April 1827) was a German physicist and musician.

Life and work

His most important work, for which he is sometimes labeled the father of acoustics, included research on vibrating plates and the calculation of the speed of sound for different gases.

He also undertook pioneering work in the study of meteorites and so is also regarded by some as the father of meteoritics.

See also

• Cymatics
• Bessel functions
• Jean-Baptiste Biot - French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician who established the reality of meteorites, made an early balloon flight, and studied the polarization of light
• Edward Charles Howard - "the first chemical engineer of any eminence."
• Hans Jenny (cymatics) - a physician and natural scientist who coined the term cymatics to describe acoustic effects of sound wave phenomena
• Alexander Lauterwasser, a photographer who uses Chladni's work when creating images of liquid surfaces
• Jacques Louis, Comte de Bournon - a French soldier and mineralogist who came to England after the French Revolution
• Meteoritics
• Tritare, a guitar causing particular forms of Chladni figures
• Vibrations of a circular membrane
• Wold Cottage (meteorite) - a meteorite which fell near Wold Cottage farm in 1795, a few miles away from the hamlet of Wold Newton in Yorkshire, England

External links

• Ernst Chladni @ Wikipedia