Leo Graetz - Biography

Leo Graetz (September 26, 1856 – November 12, 1941) was a German physicist. He was born in Wrocław (Breslau), Poland as the son of the historian Heinrich Graetz.

Graetz was one of the first to investigate the propagation of electromagnetic energy. The Graetz number (Gz), a dimensionless number describing heat flow, is named after him, as is the diode bridge rectifier circuit he invented.

In 1880 he confirmed the Stefan–Boltzmann law.

Graetz died in Munich at age 85.

Publications

Die Elektrizität und ihre Anwendungen (Electricity and Its Applications), Stuttgart 1903
Handbuch der Elektrizität und des Magnetismus (Handbook of Electricity and Magnetism) - 5 volumes, 1918, 1921, 1923, 1920, 1928
Recent developments in atomic theory, 1922

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