Birkeland, Kristian (1868-1917)
Abstract
Birkeland was a Norwegian physicist, born in Oslo. In 1900, he identified and then simulated the charged electron-magnetic flux tube connection between the Sun and Earth that produces the aurora. He studied the zodiacal light during expeditions to the Sudan and Egypt. Birkeland committed suicide in a depression associated with the rejection of his auroral theories by his contemporary established...
- Publication:
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Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- July 2001
- DOI:
- 10.1888/0333750888/5443
- Bibcode:
- 2001eaa..bookE5443.
- Keywords:
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- History and Archaeoastronomy;
- Biographies