August Kundt August Adolf Eduard Eberhard Kundt Born (1839-11-18)18 November 1839 Schwerin, Mecklenburg, Germany Died 21 May 1894(1894-05-21) (aged 54) Israelsdorf, Lübeck, Germany Nationality German Fields Physicist Institutions Berlin University Zürich Polytechnic Alma mater Berlin University Doctoral advisor Heinrich Gustav Magnus Doctoral students Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen Karl Ferdinand Braun Ivan Pulyui Hermann Theodor Simon Other notable students Franz S. Exner Known for Magneto-optics Anomalous dispersion Influenced Richard Adolf Zsigmondy