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THE seventieth birthday of Prof. G. H. Quincke, the doyen of German physicists, will be celebrated at Heidelberg on Saturday next, November 19. Prof. Quincke's laboratory formed the subject of a contribution to our series of scientific centres in NATURE of April 24, 1902, and his portrait was reproduced in the article. Reference was then made to the admirable manner in which the laboratories at Heidelberg are arranged, and the many ingenious devices to be found in them, as well as to some of the investigations carried on. It is therefore unnecessary to attempt to describe again the results of Prof. Quincke's uninterrupted work in physical research for nearly half a century. Among Prof. Quincke's many pupils have been Prof. Lenard (Kiel), Prof. Braun (Strassburg), Prof. W. Konig (Greifswald), Profs. Elster and Geitel (Wolfenbüttel), the late Prof. Willard Gibbs, Prof. Michelson, Dr. J. T. Bottomley, F.R.S., Dr. J. McCrae (Glasgow), &c.; a complete list would include many other English and American students. To celebrate the occasion of Prof. Quincke's seventieth birthday, a committee, with Prof. Kohlrausch (Berlin) as president and Dr. R. H. Weber (Heidelberg) as secretary, has arranged for the presentation of a large and handsome album containing the autograph photographs of many of the leading physicists of all nationalities and of Prof. Quincke's former pupils. A convincing testimony of the high value set on Prof. Quincke's work in this country is supplied not only by the lists of universities and learned societies which have conferred their honours on him, but also by the fact that among the English physicists and personal friends who have contributed photographs are Lord Kelvin, Lord Rayleigh, Sir W. Huggins, Sir W. Ramsay, Sir H. E. Roscoe, Sir N. Lockyer, Sir W. H. Preece, Prof. J. J. Thomson, Sir A. Rücker, Prof. J. Larmor, Prof. J. A. Ewing, Mr. C. V. Boys, Sir O. Lodge, Prof. J. H. Poynting, Prof. G. Carey Foster, Prof. A. Schuster, Dr. W. N. Shaw, Prof. J. Perry, Prof. R. B. Clifton, Prof. J. G. MacGregor, Prof. J. T. Joly, Prof. G. H. Darwin, Prof. W. G. Adams, Prof. W. M. Hicks, Prof. H. Stroud, Prof. A. P. Chattock, Prof. A. S. Herschel, and many others.
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Notes . Nature 71, 59–63 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/071059a0
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