Ernst Pringsheim Sr.

Ernst Pringsheim Sr. was a German physicist. He was born and died in Breslau. Alongside Otto Lummer, he conducted significant measurements of the blackbody radiation spectrum, leading to Max Planck's quantum hypothesis in 1900.

Literary works

Ueber das Radiometer. Berlin: Lange, 1882. Berlin, Universität, Dissertation, 1882.Eine Wellenlängenmessung im ultrarothen Sonnenspectrum. In: Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Neue Folge, Band XVIII,.A Determination of the ratio k of the specific heat for air, oxygen, carbon-dioxide and hydrogen. Washington : Smithsonian Inst., 1898.Vorlesungen über die Physik der Sonne. Leipzig: Teubner, 1910.Fluoreszenz und Phosphoreszenz im Lichte der neueren Atomtheorie, 1928.