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DR. LOUIS AGRICOLA BAUER, who was killed on April 12, by falling from a window of his flat in Washington, was probably the best-known authority on terrestrial magnetism in the world. Born in Cincinnati, on Jan. 26, 1865, he was educated at the university there, and in Berlin. From 1887 until 1892 he was astronomer and magnetic computer in the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, and in 1895–96 was an assistant to Michelson at Chicago. There he founded the journal Terrestrial Magnetism (the words and Atmospheric Electricity being added to the title in 1898); this was then, and still is, the only periodical expressly devoted to the subject. He conducted the journal for many years on his own financial responsibility, occasionally assisted by grants.
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C., S. Dr. L. A. Bauer. Nature 129, 714 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129714a0
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