August Beer ( ; 31 July 1825 – 18 November 1863) was a German physicist and mathematician. Beer was born in Trier, where he studied mathematics and natural sciences. He worked for Julius Plücker in Bonn afterwards, where he earned a Ph.D. in 1848 and became a lecturer in 1850. In 1854, Beer published his book Einleitung in die höhere Optik (Introduction to the Higher Optical). His findings, together with those of Johann Heinrich Lambert, make up the Beer-Lambert law. Beer became a professor of mathematics at Bonn in 1855. He died in Bonn in 1863.
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