(n) king of Sweden whose victories in battle made Sweden a European power; his domestic reforms made Sweden a modern state; in 1630 he intervened on the Protestant side of the Thirty Years' War and was killed in the battle of Lutzen (1594-1632), Syn. Gustavus Adolphus, Gustavus II
(n) German physicist who founded psychophysics; derived Fechner's law on the basis of early work by E. H. Weber (1801-1887), Syn. Gustav Theodor Fechner
(n) German physicist who with James Franck proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Bohr (1887-1975), Syn. Gustav Hertz, Gustav Ludwig Hertz
(n) German physicist who with Bunsen pioneered spectrum analysis and formulated two laws governing electric networks (1824-1887), Syn. G. R. Kirchhoff, Gustav Robert Kirchhoff