Johan Carl Wilcke (6 September 1732 – 18 April 1796) was a Swedish physicist. Wilcke was born in Wismar, son of a clergyman who in 1739 was appointed second...

(chemicals) depending on the type of battery. The electrophore, invented by Johan Wilcke, was an early version of an electrode used to study static electricity...

the same principle was described in 1762 by the Swedish experimenter Johan Wilcke. In 1777, he travelled through Switzerland, where he befriended H. B...

a complicated combination of independent work and collaboration with Johan Wilcke, developed an "air condenser", a variation on the Leyden jar, by using...

the presence of statically charged objects. In 1762 Swedish professor Johan Wilcke invented a device later named electrophorus that produced a static electric...

measuring the specific heat of a solid substance but was disappointed when Johan Wilcke published his parallel discovery first. Thompson next investigated the...

judge, and politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1714) 1796 – Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist and academic (b. 1732) 1802 – Erasmus Darwin, English...

Moses Mendelssohn, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1786) 1732 – Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist and academic (d. 1796) 1757 – Gilbert du Motier, Marquis...

solid – devised independently by Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford; and by Johan Wilcke, who published his discovery first (apparently not later than 1796, when...

A first version of it was invented in 1762 by Swedish professor Johan Carl Wilcke. Italian scientist Alessandro Volta improved and popularized the device...