Eugene goldstein biography

German physicist

Eugen Goldstein (OY-gən, German:[ˈɔʏɡeːnˈɡɔlt.ʃtaɪn,ˈɔʏɡn̩-]; 5 September 1850 – 25 December 1930) was a German physicist.

He was an early investigator of discharge tubes, the discoverer of anode rays or canal rays, later identified as positive ions in the gas phase including the hydrogen ion.^[1][2] He was the great uncle of the violinists Mikhail Goldstein and Boris Goldstein.

Life

Goldstein was born in 1850 at Gleiwitz Upper Silesia, now known as Gliwice, Poland, to a Jewish family.

Eugene goldstein biography

He studied at Breslau and later, under Helmholtz, in Berlin. Goldstein worked at the Berlin Observatory from 1878 to 1890 but spent most of his career at the Potsdam Observatory, where he became head of the astrophysical section in 1927.

He died in 1930 and was buried in the Weißensee Cemetery in Berlin.

Work

In the mid-nineteenth century, Julius Plücker investigated the light emitted in discharge tubes (Crookes tubes)