German physicist, entrepreneur, and social reformer
Ernst Abbe
HonFRMS
Born
(1840-01-23)23 January 1840
Eisenach, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Died
14 January 1905(1905-01-14) (aged 64)
Jena, German Empire
Nationality
German
Alma mater
University of Göttingen
University of Jena
Known for
Abbe refractometer
Abbe number
Scientific career
Fields
Physics Optical engineering
Institutions
University of Jena
Doctoral advisor
Wilhelm Eduard Weber
Karl Snell
Doctoral students
Heinrich Friedrich Weber
Other notable students
Gottlob Frege
Ernst Karl AbbeHonFRMS (23 January 1840 – 14 January 1905) was a German businessman, optical engineer, physicist, and social reformer. Together with Otto Schott and Carl Zeiss, he developed numerous optical instruments. He was also a co-owner of Carl Zeiss AG, a German manufacturer of scientific microscopes, astronomical telescopes, planetariums, and other advanced optical systems.
Ernst Karl Abbe HonFRMS (23 January 1840 – 14 January 1905) was a German businessman, optical engineer, physicist, and social reformer. Together with...
most aspects of optical instrument production. His collaboration with ErnstAbbe revolutionized optical theory and practical design of microscopes. Their...
An Abbe refractometer is a bench-top device for the high-precision measurement of an index of refraction. ErnstAbbe (1840–1905), working for Carl Zeiss...
wavelength), with high values of V indicating low dispersion. It is named after ErnstAbbe (1840–1905), the German physicist who defined it. The term V-number should...
University) was founded in 1558 and had 18,000 students in 2017 and the Ernst-Abbe-Fachhochschule Jena counts another 5,000 students. Furthermore, there...
In optics, an Abbe prism, named for its inventor, the German physicist ErnstAbbe, is a type of constant deviation dispersive prism similar to a Pellin–Broca...
as well as on-axis objects. It was formulated by ErnstAbbe in the context of microscopes. The Abbe sine condition says that the sine of the object-space...
Abbe error, named after ErnstAbbe, also called sine error, describes the magnification of angular error over distance. For example, when one measures...
Magdala, near Weimar. Around 1861 he entered the University of Jena, where ErnstAbbe became the first of two physicists who decisively influenced his career...
handheld refractometers, laboratory or Abbe refractometers (named for the instrument's inventor and based on ErnstAbbe's original design of the 'critical angle')...
founded in Jena, Germany in 1846 by optician Carl Zeiss. Together with ErnstAbbe (joined 1866) and Otto Schott (joined 1884) he laid the foundation for...
intense course in economics & law in year 11 and 12). ErnstAbbe Gymnasium (named after ErnstAbbe. This public gymnasium offers specialisations in science...
occupying Allied authorities. Jena was reconstituted in June 1946 as SG ErnstAbbe Jena and, like many other clubs in East Germany, underwent a number of...
founding of glass science. At the end of the 19th century the physicist ErnstAbbe developed equations that allow calculating the design of optimized optical...
microscope to observe structure of meteorites. 1860s: ErnstAbbe, a colleague of Carl Zeiss, discovers the Abbe sine condition, a breakthrough in microscope design...
not improve until the 1880s when he hired Otto Schott and eventually ErnstAbbe. Optical microscopes can focus on objects the size of a wavelength or...
physicists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries included ErnstAbbe (1840–1905), a co-owner of at the Zeiss Jena factories in Germany, where...