Christian Christiansen
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Christian Christiansen (born October 9, 1843 in Loenborg, Denmark, died 1917) was a Danish physicist.
Christiansen first taught at the local polytechnical school. In 1886 he was appointed to a chair for physics at the University of Copenhagen.
He mainly studied radiant heat and optical dispersion, discovering the Christiansen effect (Christiansen filter). He found numerous absorption spectra with abnormal dispersion, among them aniline red.
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- C. Christiansen, Laerebog i fysik, Copenhagen, 1892
- C. Christiansen, Indledning til den mathematiske Fysik, 2 Bde, 1887-1889
- C. Christiansen, Untersuchungen über die optischen Eigenschaften von fein vertheilten Körpern - Erste Mittheilung, Ann. Phys., Vol. 23, pp. 298-306, 1884
- C. Christiansen, Untersuchungen über die optischen Eigenschaften von fein vertheilten Körpern - Zweite Mittheilung, Ann. Phys., vol. 24, pp. 439-446, 1885