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Karl Eugen Guthe
The Michigan Alumnus 10-17
The Michigan Alumnus 10-17
Dr. Karl E. Guthe, assistant pro fessor of physics since 1900 and in structor in physics from 1893 to 1900, has gone to Washington to become assistant physicist in the National Bureau of Standards in the Depart ment of Commerce and Labor.
Dr. Guthe is a German, and was edu cated in the technical school at Han over, and in the universities of Mar burg, Strassburg, and Berlin. Before coming to this country, he had taught a year and a half in the University of Strassburg. He has published Lab oratory Exercises with Primary and Storage Cells, and (with Dr. John O. Reed) A Manual of Physical Mea surements, besides a considerable number of papers.
His principal work at the University has been in electricity and heat. With Professors Patterson and Carhart he has worked on the redetermination of electrical units, and with Professor Trowbridge, of Wisconsin, on the coherer.
In the new Bureau of Standards he will be in charge of the section for absolute electrical measurements. The work will be exclusively research, and will be of great importance for the defini tion of the electrical units of current, electromotive force, and resistance.