<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> <oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"> <dc:description>Studies of law at the Universities of Wittenberg and Leipzig, both in Germany; 1781 Dr. phil. and 1782 Dr. jur. in Leipzig; after the death of his father in 1782, a jurist who wanted him to study law, Chladni turned to science, choosing acoustics as his particular area of experimental investigation; devised the sand pattern technique to provide demonstrations of the vibrations of surfaces, explained in Entdeckungen über die Theorie des Klanges (1787); designed and constructed two keyboard instruments, the euphonium (1780) and the clavicylinder (1800); lecture tours to present his results in Europe capitals, famous listeners were Napoleon, Goethe, Lichtenberg, Pierre Simon Marquis de Laplace and Siméon Denis Poisson; discovered in astronomical studies the space as source of meteors; died traveling in 1827.</dc:description> <dc:identifier>https://vlp-new.ur.de/people/per487</dc:identifier> <dc:identifier>http://d-nb.info/gnd/118520490</dc:identifier> <dc:identifier>oai:vlp-new.ur.de:per487</dc:identifier> <dc:relation>https://vlp-new.ur.de/records/lit29494</dc:relation> <dc:relation>https://vlp-new.ur.de/records/lit28938</dc:relation> <dc:rights>info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess</dc:rights> <dc:rights>https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/</dc:rights> <dc:title>Chladni, Ernst Florens Friedrich</dc:title> </oai_dc:dc>