Søren Absalon Larsen was a :Category:Danish physicists|Danish physicist who worked in the field of electroacoustics and is best known for giving his name to the Larsen effect. Absalon Larsen was originally MSc. Philosophy and taught theology, then he began to study physics. He subsequently joined to assist Professor Prytz in the organization of a new exercise course in electronics for mechanical engineers. He was employed at the Polytechnic college, first as a lecturer, later as a professor of electrical engineering. From 1937 he was chairman of the electrical engineering group under the. More biographical detail exists in the Dansk Biografisk Leksikon and the Nordisk Familjebok, in Danish.
Family
Parents: farmer and carpenter, later maltster Hans Christian L. and Ingeborg Absalonsen. In 1900 he married Agnes Hedevig Elisabeth Munch, of the merchant Peter Jacob M. and Charlotte Margaret Adler.
Messungen von vagabondierenden Stromen in Gas-und Wasserrohren" 1901 ~ Measurement of Stray Electrical Current Effects in Gas and Water Pipes.
A. Larsen, “Ein akustischer Wechselstromerzeuger mit regulierbarer Periodenzahl für schwache Ströme,” Elektrotech. Z., ETZ 32, pp. 284–285, Mar. 1911.
WorldCat Entries
* Sagen mod praesten i Vejlby og de sager, der fulgte by Absalon Larsen
* Telegrafonen og den Traadløse og Opfinderparret Valdemar Poulsen og P. O. Pedersen by Absalon Larsen
* Naturfredning i Frederiksborg amt by Absalon Larsen
* Methodical classification of international definitions : A paper read before the special committee on nomenclature, a their meeting in Cologne, March 1913 by Absalon Larsen
* Om Radioforstyrrelser og Midler derimod
* The Discovery of electromagnetism made in the year 1820 by H. C. Oersted by Absalon Larsen
