Adolf Wüllner

Adolf Wüllner (1835 to 1908) was a German physicist, born in Düsseldorf and died in Aachen. He studied physics at the University of Bonn, the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin, and qualified as a lecturer at Marburg University in 1858. In 1862 he became director of the vocational school in Aachen, and in 1867 he was named an associate professor at the University of Bonn. From 1869 onward he was a professor of physics at the Technical University of Aachen, where he served as academic rector from 1883 to 1886. He is remembered for his work on the specific heat of liquids and gases, vapor tension, refractive indexes and emission spectra, and for a successful textbook, Lehrbuch der Experimentalphysik, first published in two volumes in 1862 to 1865 and in its fifth edition in four volumes in 1907.