Leander Ditscheiner

Leander Ditscheiner (4 January 1839 – 1 February 1905) was an Austrian physicist and mathematician, best known for his research on birefringence.

Leander Ditscheiner
1893 portrait by Wenzel Ottokar Noltsch
Born	(1839-01-04)4 January 1839 Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died	1 February 1905(1905-02-01) (aged 66) Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Awards	Lieben Prize (1871)

Life and work

Leander Ditscheiner was born 1839 in Vienna. He studied at the University of Vienna and later at the University of Heidelberg. He received his Ph.D. in 1857 and became lecturer at the Vienna University of Technology in 1866. In the later years he became assistant professor and full professor in 1883.^[1][2]