Karl Scheel
German physicist
Died when: 70 years 243 days (847 months)Star Sign: Pisces
Karl Friedrich Franz Christian Scheel (10 March 1866 in Rostock – 8 November 1936 in Berlin) was a German physicist.He was a Senior Executive Officer and head of Department IIIb at the Reich Physical and Technical Institute.
Additionally, he served as editor of the journal Fortschritte der Physik, the semi-monthly bibliographic section of the journal Physikalische Berichte, the Verhandlungen of the German Physical Society, and the Society’s journal Zeitschrift für Physik.
From 1926 to 1935, he was editor of the Handbuch der Physik.An endowment by Scheel and his wife Melida funds the annual awarding of the Karl Scheel Prize by the Physical Society in Berlin.
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