Franz S. Exner
Austrian physicist (1849–1926)
Franz Serafin Exner jun. (Austrian German: [ˈfrants ˈɛksnɐ]; 24 March 1849 – 15 November 1926) was an Austrian physicist and professor at the University of Vienna. He is known for pioneering physical chemistry education in Austria. The early introduction to university curricula of subjects such as radioactivity, spectroscopy, electrochemistry, electricity in the atmosphere, and color theory in Austria are often credited to him.
He advised many notable students including Stefan Meyer, Erwin Schrödinger, and Marian Smoluchowski.
Exner was associated with Herbartianism and helped transmit Johann Friedrich Herbart's philosophy into Austrian academic life.
Life
Early life and family
Franz Serafin Exner came from an important university family in the Austrian Empire. His family included Adolf Exner, Karl Exner, Sigmund Exner, Marie von Frisch and Felix Maria von Exner-Ewarten (grandson, son of Sigmund Exner). Exner was the youngest of the five children who survived to adulthood of parents Franz Serafin Exner sen. (1802–1853) and Charlotte Dusensy (1816–1859).
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