Christian Doppler

Famous for describing the “Doppler effect

[ Born: 1803 / Salzburg, Austria. ]

[ Died: 1853 / Venice, Italy. ]

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• Described the “Doppler effect”, which postulates that the observed frequency of a wave depends on the relative speed of source and observer. Doppler used this concept to explain the colours of binary stars.

Trivia - Gregor Mendel, often known as “the founding father of Genetics” was a student of Doppler at the University of Vienna

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