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Johann Wilhelm Ritter was a German chemist and physicist (16 December 1776 - 23 January 1810) who discovered Ultraviolet (UV) light. | Johann Wilhelm Ritter was a German chemist and physicist (16 December 1776 - 23 January 1810) who discovered Ultraviolet (UV) light. | ||
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Johann Wilhelm Ritter was a German chemist and physicist (16 December 1776 - 23 January 1810) who discovered Ultraviolet (UV) light.
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Born and raised in a wealthy German family, Ritter was inspired with science when he was 14 years old. He self-taught himself to become a scientist and made many experimental researches on chemistry, electricity, and waves. His first scientific research had to do with the galvanic phenomena. Around 1800, William Nicholson and Anthony Carlisle discovered that water could be decomposed into oxygen and hydrogen by electricity. Few years later, Ritter discovered the same result, independently, which led to the discovery of the process of electroplating.
Many of his researches were inspired by a search for polarities in nature and relationship between those forces of nature. When William Herschel discovered "heat ray" or infrared radiation, Ritter was inspired to research the opposite or cooling radiation at the end of the visible spectrum. After multiple trials and errors, he noticed that silver chloride transformed faster from white to black when it was placed close to its violet end. The rays he found were later called as ultraviolet radiation.
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