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Carl Wilhelm Siemens

Engineer and inventor (1823-1883) · Scientists · Died at 60

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Sir Carl Wilhelm Siemens, anglicised to Charles William Siemens, was a German-British electrical engineer and businessman. He was born on April 4, 1823, in the Kingdom of Hanover and died on 19 November 1883 at the age of 60 years in London.

A life in dates

1883Died19 November 18831875Bessemer Gold MedalAward1874Albert MedalAward1871Royal Society Bakerian MedalAward1862Fellow of the Royal SocietyAward1823Born4 April 1823

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The 4-cylinder experimental gas engine subject of Siemens patent (image taken from Theory of the Gas Engine by Dugald Clerk in 1882)The 4-cylinder experimental gas engine subject of Siemens patent (image taken from Theory of the Gas Engine by Dugald Clerk in 1882)CS FaradayCS Faraday

Awards

Bessemer Gold Medal1875
Albert Medal1874
Royal Society Bakerian Medal1871
Fellow of the Royal Society1862
Honorary doctorate from the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg
Honorary doctor of the University of Oxford
Honorary Doctorate of the University of Glasgow
Knight Bachelor

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Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1823 to 1883 · aged 60

Scientists born in the 1820s 6

Wilhelm Bauer50.4Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann50.3N. R. Pogson50.4Isaac Roberts50.2Johann Wilhelm Hittorf50.7Alexander William Williamson50.1

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