Georg Adolph Erman
1806–77
German physicist and geologist. Travelled round the world, 1828–30. Assistant professor of physics, Berlin, 1834. Foreign member, Royal Society, 1873.
Sources
DSB
NDB.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
NDB: Neue deutsche Biographie. Under the auspices of the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. 27 vols. (A–Wettiner) to date. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. 1953–.
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