!!!Exner, Karl

b. Prague (Czech Republic), March 26, 1842, 
d. Vienna, Dec. 11, 1914, physicist; son of Franz Serafin  Exner.; 
1871-1874 teacher at the grammar school at Troppau; lived in Vienna 
from 1874-1894; from 1894 professor of mathematical physics at 
Innsbruck University; analysed among other things optical and 
geometrical problems.

!Works
Ueber das Funkeln der Sterne, 1881; Ueber eine Maschine zur 
Aufloesung hoeherer Gleichungen, 1881; Vorlesungen ueber die 
Wellentheorie des Lichts, 2 vols., 1881/1887 (German version by E. 
Verdet).

!Literature
OeBL.



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