Background
He was born in Bautzen, the son of the Government Commissioner of City Planning Otto August Braunbek (1869–1929).
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Werner Braunbeck
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Education
Werner attended the University of Stuttgart, the University of Munich and the University of Berlin. In 1925 he received a doctorate in engineering and completed his habilitation in theoretical physics the following year at the University of Stuttgart, where he continued as a lecturer.
Career
In 1961/62 he served as Dean of Mathematical and Natural Sciences of the University of Tübingen. In 1934 Braunbeck developed the Braunbek coil, a modified Helmholtz coil. In 1939, he disproved Earnshaw"s theorem by showing that there are magnetic fields in which small diamagnetic bodies can float in a stable position.
He pioneered study into the diffraction of waves, particularly at short wavelengths.
Braunbek also authored a number of popular science physics books He died in Tübingen, aged 76.
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Germany