Dr. Alec Eden presenting
his lecture "Doppler Revisited"
at the Bowman Gray School
of Medicine of Wake Forest University,
February 16, 1990
Dr. Alec Eden and "Doppler
the Man"
Dr. Alec Eden presenting
his lecture "Doppler Revisited"
at the Bowman Gray School
of Medicine of Wake Forest University,
February 16, 1990
Dr. Alec Eden (of Eden Medical Electronics, a pioneering firm in the field of transcranial Doppler ultrasound) became interested in the history of Christian Doppler and has done extensive research on his life and work. Much of his work is presented in his book The Search for Christian Doppler (Springer, 1992). In 1985 he presented a lecture at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine called "Doppler the Man". Five years later, on February 16, 1990, he presented an updated version of the lecture which he called "Doppler Revisited". The link below will take you to a 2 minute excerpt from that 1990 lecture in which he discusses his discovery from baptismal records in Salzburg that Doppler's actual full name was Christian Andreas Doppler (not Johann Christian or Christian Johann as stated in most medical and general encyclopedias).
In 1988 Dr. Eden was appointed by the State Government of Salzburg as the first president of the Christian Doppler Foundation there.
Photograph of Christian Andreas Doppler
(From a videotape of Dr.
Alec Eden's lecture "Doppler Revisited",
presented February 16, 1990
at the Bowman Gray School of
Medicine in Winston-Salem,
N.C.)
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to a two minute excerpt from Dr. Alec Eden's 1990
lecture "Doppler
Revisited" in MP3 format
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Photograph of the building
where Doppler's Physics Institute was located in Vienna, Austria.
The institute occupied the
second floor and Doppler and his family lived on the third floor.
The building is no longer
standing.
(From a videotape of Dr.
Alec Eden's lecture "Doppler Revisited",
presented February 16, 1990
at the Bowman Gray School of
Medicine in Winston-Salem,
N.C.)
Link
to an excellent biographical sketch of Christian Andreas Doppler
by J
J O'Connor and E
F Robertson
(University
of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland)
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