A physicist whose appointments took him from Zürich in 1868 through Würzburg and Strasbourg to the Berlin chair of experimental physics in 1888.[ref]
August Kundt by Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Kurzbiographie: physics professorships and life dates
Portrait of August Kundt
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August Kundt is typically associated with the "Kundt's tube," which is a scientific apparatus used in acoustics to demonstrate standing waves in a gas or liquid medium. The device consists of a tube that can be partially filled with a medium, and a loudspeaker or other sound source that generates sound waves. By adjusting the frequency of the sound, one can visualize standing waves formed along the length of the tube, which leads to the observation of nodes and antinodes.