The New Student's Reference Work/Seebeck, Thomas Johann

Seebeck (zā̇′bĕk), Thomas Johann, a German physicist, born April 9, 1770, at Reval, died on Dec. 10, 1831, at Berlin. Seebeck will be remembered principally for his very important discovery of thermo-electric currents, sometimes called the Seebeck effect. This is the converse of the Peltier effect. (See Electricity.) For an excellent account of these two “effects” see J. J. Thompson's Elements of Electricity and Magnetism, ch. 14.