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1803 – 1853Christian Doppler (1803-1853)Died 17 March 1853, aged 49Christian Doppler was an Austrian physicist and mathematician best known for describing the frequency shift of waves now called the Doppler effect. He proposed the effect in 1842 to explain the colors of binary stars, and it later became fundamental to astronomy, radar, and medical imaging. He died in Venice of a pulmonary disease.