Jean Alexander Heinrich Clapier de Colongue (Russian: Ivan Petrovich de Collong; Иван Петрович де-Колонг; Latvian: Johans Aleksandrs Heinrihs Klapje de Kolongs) (2 March [O.S. 22 February] 1838–26 May [O.S. 13 May] 1901) was a Baltic German marine engineer and founder of a theory of magnetic deviation for magnetic compasses, living and working in Imperial Russia.
Born |
1839 Dünaburg, Vitebsk Guberniya, Russian Empire (now Daugavpils, Latvia)
|
Died |
1901 (aged 61)
|
Zodiac | |
Tags | Add tag |