Anders Jonas ?Ngstr?m - Tapa blanda

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Anders Jonas Ã...ngström August 13, 1814 – June 21, 1874 was a Swedish physicist and one of the founders of the science of spectroscopy. Born in Medelpad, he moved to, and was educated at Uppsala University, where in 1839 he became docent in physics. In 1842 he went to the Stockholm Observatory in order to gain experience in practical astronomical work, and in the following year he was appointed keeper of the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory. Becoming interested in terrestrial magnetism he made many observations of magnetic intensity and declination in various parts of Sweden, and was charged by the Stockholm Academy of Sciences with the task, not completed till shortly before his death, of working out the magnetic data obtained by the Swedish frigate Eugénie" on her voyage round the world in 1851-1853. "