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Swedish physicist Erik Edlund was born in the province of Närke, March 14, 1819. While researching, Erik focused on the theory of electricity. He did his research under Svanberg and got Ph.D in Physics in 1845. Then he started working under Weber in Leipzig and kept researching with him for two years.
In 1850, Erik started his professional career as a Physics professor at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. This Academy is an independent, non-governmental scientific organization working to promote the sciences, primarily the natural sciences and mathematics. In this organization Edlund join as a member in 1851. The oldest of the royal academies in Sweden, Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala also approved Eric’s membership in the academy in 1858. In 1878 Eric became a honorary member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture which is promoting agriculture, forestry and related fields with the support of science and practical experience. He was one of the masterminds who secured the introduction of weather stations, a facility with instruments and equipment for measuring atmospheric conditions, to Sweden.
In his publications ‘Theorie des phénomènes électriques’ (1874) Eric discussed about unipolar induction, tracing the origin of electricity to the rotation of the earth and of the higher strata of the atmosphere. From 1858 to 1873 Eric made the meteorological observations and the Academy of Sciences of Stockholm published those meteorological observations in fourteen volumes. At the age of 69 Erik Edlund was died in Stockholm in 19 August 1888.
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