Thomas Johann Seebeck, German physician, physicist, and chemist, was born April 9, 1770, in the Hanseatic town of Revel (now Tallinn Estonia). Seebeck studied medicine in Berlin and Goettingen, where in 1802 he took a physician's doctor degree....

1770-1831 Russian-German physicist and chemist who first described the thermocouple. A thermocouple consists of two wires of different metals that are joined to form a closed loop. An electric current flows through the loop when the junctions of the...

Thomas Johann Seebeck (April 9 1770 – December 10 1831) was a physicist who in 1821 discovered the thermoelectric effect. Seebeck was born in Reval (today Tallinn, Estonia) to a wealthy Baltic German merchant family. He received a medical degree...

Byline: Joel Rippel; Staff Writer Cameron Seebeck spent four seasons giving the Eden Prairie boys' swimmers a boost. But during his senior season, the defending Class 2A 100-yard freestyle champion needed a boost from his teammates. Seebeck's mother, Kathy, has...

NEW CARLISLE -- Mary Seebeck -- approaching an ageless 80 in July and looking forward to upcoming competitions -- was still taking her morning walks this spring despite rain and temperatures hovering around 90. She has always been a firm believer in physical...