Christian Doppler
Christian Andreas Doppler was an Austrian mathematician and physicist. He formulated the principle – now known as the Doppler effect – that the observed frequency of a wave depends on the relative speed of the source and the observer.
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- Salzburg
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- University of SalzburgUniversity of ViennaTU Wien
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1803
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