DOVE, HEINRICH WILHELM German meteorologist, was born at Leignitz, Silesia, on Oct. 6, 1803. He studied mathematics and physics at Berlin and Breslau. He was professor of physics at Konigsberg (1826-29), supplementary professor and finally, professor of physics at Berlin. He made an exhaustive and exact study of the distribution of temperature over the surface of the earth, giving many of his results in carefully drawn maps. This work has been of great importance to geographers and geologists. He also carried out a series of investigations on winds and phenomena allied with winds; he was considerably hampered in this work by the fact that the barometers in use at the time did not give reliable readings. Dove was a foreign member of the Royal Society. He died at Berlin on April 6, 1879. Among his publications were Ober Mass and Hessen (1835); Meteorologische Untersuchungen (1837); and Klimatologische Beitrage (1857-69).
See H. Newmann, H, W. Dope (1925).