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August Beer

August Beer was a German physicist, chemist, and mathematician of Jewish descent. Beer published a paper in the field of spectroscopy on the absorption of red light in colored aqueous solutions of various salts, which is extended on the work from Pierre Bouguer's and Johann Heinrich Lambert's absorption laws.

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Who was born first?

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  1. August Beer (this page)July 31, 1825 – November 18, 1863
  2. Edward FranklandJanuary 18, 1825 – August 9, 1899
  3. George Phillips BondMay 20, 1825 – February 17, 1865
  4. Johann Friedrich Julius SchmidtOctober 26, 1825 – February 7, 1884
  5. Johann Jakob BalmerMay 1, 1825 – March 12, 1898
  6. William Thomson, 1st Baron KelvinJune 26, 1825 – December 17, 1907

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