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The house where Doppler died

The Municipality’s plaque on the wall of the Riva degli Schiavoni: ’in this house on 17 March 1853 died Christian Doppler’
The Municipality’s plaque on the wall of the Riva degli Schiavoni: ’in this house on 17 March 1853 died Christian Doppler’ Photo: Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

A pale plaque on a wall of the Riva degli Schiavoni says that in this house, on 17 March 1853, died ’the great Austrian physicist and mathematician Christian Doppler, who discovered the Doppler effect’.

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