Thomas Johann Seebeck

Thomas Johann Seebeck (April 9 1770 – December 10 1831) was a physicist who in 1821 discovered the thermoelectric effect.

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Seebeck was born in Reval (today Tallinn), Estonia to a wealthy German merchant family. He received a medical degree in 1802 from the University of G?ttingen, but preferred to study physics. In 1821 he discovered the thermoelectric effect, where a junction of dissimilar metals produces an electric current when exposed to a temperature gradient. This is now called the Peltier-Seebeck effect and is the basis of thermocouples and thermopiles.

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