August Kundt

August Kundt
August Kundt
	Kundt, c. 1893
Born	August Adolf Eduard Eberhard Kundt; 18 November 1839; Schwerin, Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Died	21 May 1894 (aged 54); Free City of Lübeck, German Empire
Alma mater	University of Berlin
Known for	Kundt's tube (1866)
	Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	University of Berlin ; (1867–68, 1888–94); Federal Polytechnic School (1868–72); University of Strassburg (1872–88);
Doctoral advisor	Heinrich Magnus
Doctoral students	See list Ivan Puluj (1876) ; Heinrich Kayser (1879) ; Otto Wiener (1887) ; Friedrich Paschen (1889) ; Heinrich Rubens (1889) ; Pyotr Lebedev (1891) ; Wilhelm Hallwachs (1893) ; Hermann Theodor Simon (1894) ;
Other notable students	See list Knut Ångström ; Emil Cohn ; Franz Exner ; Wilhelm Röntgen ; Emil Warburg ; Arthur Webster ; Max Wien ;

August Adolf Eduard Eberhard Kundt (German: [ˈaʊɡʊst ˈkʊnt]; 18 November 1839 – 21 May 1894) was a German physicist known for developing Kundt's tube, an appartus used to measure the speed of sound in gases and solids.