Dove

Dove, HEINRICH WILHELM, physicist and meteorologist, was born in 1803, at Liegnitz, in Silesia, studied at Breslau and Berlin, and in 1845 became professor of Natural Philosophy at Berlin, where he died, 4th April 1879. He laboured successfully in many fields of science, especially optics and electricity; but his greatest services were rendered to meteorology, which he did much to establish on a scientific basis. He was from 1848 director of the Royal Meteorological Institute, with over eighty stations. To him is due, amongst a great variety of optical discoveries, the application of the stereoscope to the detection of forged bank-notes. Dove was a voluminous writer; his treatise on the Distribution of Heat on the Surface of the Globe was published in 1853 by the British Association, and his notable Das Gesetz der Stürme (4th ed. 1874) has also been translated.