List of Famous people with last name Fraunhofer

Joseph von Fraunhofer

First Name Joseph
Last Name Fraunhofer
Born on March 6, 1787
Died on June 7, 1826 (aged 39)
Born in Germany, Bavaria

Joseph Ritter von Fraunhofer was a Bavarian physicist and optical lens manufacturer. He made optical glass and achromatic telescope objective lenses, invented the spectroscope, and developed diffraction grating. In 1814, he discovered and studied the dark absorption lines in the spectrum of the sun now known as Fraunhofer lines.

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