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THE issue of the Physikalische Zeitschrift for Feb. 15 devotes twelve pages to the obituary address delivered in the hall of the PhysikalischTechnische Reichsanstalt at Charlottenburg on Dec. 18 by Dr. F. Henning, following on the death on Sept. 19 of his friend and colleague Dr. C. F. L. Holborn, head of the Heat Section of the Reichsanstalt. Dr. Holborn was born at Göttingen on Sept. 29, 1860, and after attending the local Realschule entered the University in 1879, and passed the government examination for teachers in 1884. He elected not to teach, but entered the Observatory as assistant to Schering in the terrestrial magnetism department, and in 1887 took his doctor's degree with a dissertation on the daily variation of the magnetic elements. In 1890 he joined the Reichsanstalt as assistant and rose gradually to be head of the Heat Section. For a time in 1924 he acted as director of the establishment, and the date of his retirement from office was put three years later than the usual age of sixty-five years. His work on the temperature scale and on the thermal properties of gases has proved of great value for both science and industry.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 119, 678 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119678b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/119678b0