The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Guthe, Karl Eugen

GUTHE, goo'tĕ, Karl Eugen, American scientist: b. Hanover, Germany, 5 March 1866; d. 10 Sept. 1915. After studying at Strassburg, Berlin and Marburg, he emigrated to the United States in 1892. He instructed in physics at the University of Michigan and then removed to Iowa State College. In 1909 he became professor of physics at Michigan and dean of the graduate department in 1912. His publications include ‘Manual of Physical Measurements’ (1902); ‘Laboratory Exercises with Primary and Storage Cells’ (1903); ‘Textbook of Physics’ (1908); ‘College Physics’ (1911, with J. O. Reed), and ‘Definitions in Physics’ (1913).