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Adolf Ferdinand Wenceslaus Brix

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According to Wikipedia, Adolf Ferdinand Wenceslaus Brix was a German mathematician and engineer. The unit for specific gravity of liquids, degree Brix , is named after him. Brix made a career as a civil servant in professions related to civil engineering, measurements and manufacture and retired in 1866 . He was director of the Royal Prussian Commission for Measurements, member of a technical committee in the Ministry of Trade, and the technical building committee. He was also a teacher of applied mathematics at Gewerbeinstitut zu Berlin , as well as in higher analysis and applied mathematics at the Bauakademie, both of which are forerunners of the Technical University of Berlin.

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