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Born Ernst Waldfried Josef Wenzel Mach February 18, 1838, in Chirlitz-Turas, Moravia, Austrian Empire. Mother Josefa Lanhausova, and Father Jan Nepomuk Mach.
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Ernst was homeschool till the age of 14 when he attended Gymnasium high school for 3 years. Entered the University of Vienna at the age of 17 in 1855.
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Ernst received his doctorate in physics in 1860 and started teaching mechanics and physics in Vienna until 1864.
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Ernst Mach became a professor of mathematics at the University of Graz. He considered himself a physicist, while he discovered the physiological phenomenon called Mach bands.
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In 1867 Ernst decided to leave Graz to become a professor of experimental physics at Charles University where he stayed for the next 28 years.
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Between the times of 1873 and 1893 Ernst did a lot of studying and experimenting, devoloping optical and photographic techniques for the measurment of sound waves and wave propogation.
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In 1887 Ernst established the principles of supersonics and the Mach number, which is the ratio of the velocity of an object to the velocity of sound.
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Ernst returned to the University of Vienna as a professor of inductive philosofy, suffered a stroke 2 years later and retired from research in 1901.
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Mach Ernst published Erkenntnis Irrtum("Knoweledge and Error") in 1905 and an autobioography in 1910
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Mach continued writing until his death on Febuary 19, 1916.
