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THE death on Dec. 28 of Prof. Eugen Goldstein, I head of the Astro-Physical Section of the Pots-dam Observatory, removes an observer whose work on the phenomena which accompany the passage of electricity through rarefied gases is well known. He was born at Gleiwitz on Sept. 5, 1850, was educated at the Ratibor Gymnasium and the Universities of Breslau and Berlin. At Berlin he worked under Helmholtz at the electric discharge in vacuum tubes, and in 1876 his first paper on the subject appeared in the Berliner Berichte, and was followed for fifty years by a long series dealing with cathode and anode rays and the influence of magnetic fields and of the dimensions of the discharge tube on the character of the discharge. He maintained throughout that the luminous discs of the positive column were repetitions with de-creased intensity of the cathode glow. His recent work was mainly on the complex discharge near the anode, but he is probably best known for his dis-covery of the anode or canal rays. He was awarded the Hughes Medal by the Royal Society in 1908.
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Obituary. Nature 127, 171 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/127171a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/127171a0