Christian Andreas Doppler (; 29 November 1803 – 17 March 1853) was an Austrian mathematician and physicist.
He used this concept to explain the color of binary stars. ==Biography== Doppler was born in Salzburg (today Austria) in 1803.
After completing high school, Doppler studied philosophy in Salzburg and mathematics and physics at the Imperial–Royal Polytechnic Institute (now TU Wien), where he became an assistant in 1829.
In 1835 he began work at the Prague Polytechnic (now Czech Technical University in Prague), where he received an appointment in 1841. One year later, at the age of 38, Doppler gave a lecture to the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences and subsequently published his most notable work, Über das farbige Licht der Doppelsterne und einiger anderer Gestirne des Himmels ("On the coloured light of the binary stars and some other stars of the heavens").
In 1835 he began work at the Prague Polytechnic (now Czech Technical University in Prague), where he received an appointment in 1841. One year later, at the age of 38, Doppler gave a lecture to the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences and subsequently published his most notable work, Über das farbige Licht der Doppelsterne und einiger anderer Gestirne des Himmels ("On the coloured light of the binary stars and some other stars of the heavens").
There he was appointed head of the Institute for Experimental Physics at the University of Vienna in 1850.
While there, Doppler, along with Franz Unger, influenced the development of young Gregor Mendel, the founding father of genetics, who was a student at the University of Vienna from 1851 to 1853. Doppler died on 17 March 1853 at age 49 from a pulmonary disease in Venice (at that time part of the Austrian Empire).
Christian Andreas Doppler (; 29 November 1803 – 17 March 1853) was an Austrian mathematician and physicist.
While there, Doppler, along with Franz Unger, influenced the development of young Gregor Mendel, the founding father of genetics, who was a student at the University of Vienna from 1851 to 1853. Doppler died on 17 March 1853 at age 49 from a pulmonary disease in Venice (at that time part of the Austrian Empire).
Salzburg: Landespressebureau, 1988.
Wien: Böhlau, 1992. * Bd.
Scheiner's mistake has since been copied by many. ==Tribute== On 29 November 2017, Google celebrated his 214th birthday with a Google Doodle. ==Works== Christian Doppler (1803–1853).
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