| Authorised form of name | Wiedemann; Gustav Heinrich (1826 - 1899) |
| Dates | 1826 - 1899 |
| Nationality | German |
| Place of birth | Berlin, Germany |
| Date of birth | 02 October 1826 |
| Place of death | Leipzig, Germany |
| Date of death | 23 March 1899 |
| Research field | Physics |
| Chemistry |
| Activity | Education:
PhD (1847)
Career:
Professor of Physics, Basel (1854-1863); taught at Brunswick and at Carlsruhe; Professor of Physical Chemistry, Leipzig (1871); Professor of Physics, Leipzig; studied the thermal conductivity of metals
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| Membership category | Foreign Member |
| Date of election | 31/01/1884 |
| Relationships | Married (1851) Clara, daughter of Eilhard Mitscherlich (For Mem RS 1828) |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1905 vol 75 pp 41-43 signed by G C F |
| Code | NA6666 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1884/05 | Wiedemann, Gustav Heinrich: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/11/821 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Herrn Professor Dr E Wiedemann, Die Universitat, Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany | 10 October 1895 |
| NLB/18/555 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | [29 March 1899] |
| MC/11/47 | Letter from Professor G [Gustav] Wiedemann, Fridericianum, Leipzig, to the Secretary of the Royal Society | 16 April 1877 |
| MC/11 | Volume 11 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1877-1879 |
| PP/10/28 | Paper, 'Clausius's formula for the change of state from liquid to gas applied to Messrs. Ramsay and Young's observations on alcohol' by George Francis Fitzgerald | 1887 |