Auguste Arthur De la Rive
Swiss physicist
Prof Auguste Arthur De la Rive ForMemRS, HFRSE (9 October 1801 – 27 November 1873) was a Swiss physicist. He was President of the Helvetic Society of Natural Science in 1845.2
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Born Oct 9, 1801, died Nov 27, 1873.1
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De la Rive's first scientific publication was on the influence of the Earth's magnetism upon a movable frame traversed by a voltaic current, published in 1822, and followed by a memoir upon Caustics, which appeared in 1823. Over a period of fifty years, De la Rive made numerous contributions to science, which were published in the Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève or in the Bibliothèque universelle de Genève.
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Occupation: university teacher, politician, physicist.5
- Date not recordedWorked at University of Geneva3
- Date not recordedFounded Société genevoise d'Instruments de Physique4
Personal life
- BornOct 9, 1801, Geneva6
- DiedNov 27, 1873, Marseille7
- CitizenshipRepublic of Geneva, Switzerland8
- ResidenceSwitzerland9
On August 18, 1826, he married writer Jeanne-Mathilde Duppa (March 14, 1808 – August 18, 1850). Their son, Lucien de la Rive, born in Choulex on 3 April 1834, published papers on various mathematical and physical subjects, and with Edouard Sarasin carried out investigations on the propagation of electric waves. In 1855, Auguste married the widow Louise Maurice, née Fatio.
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