Bezold effect

occupation / innovator as

physicist

meteorologist

scientific organization

German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities

nationality

German

university teacher

Göttingen Academy of Sciences

innovator in the field of

physics

Russian Academy of Sciences

is an optical illusion that a color may appear different depending on its relation to adjacent colors. It happens when small areas of color are interspersed.

The Bezold effect is an optical illusion, named after a German professor of meteorology, Wilhelm von Bezold (1837-1907), who discovered that a color may appear different depending on its relation to adjacent colors. It happens when small areas of color are interspersed. (wikipedia)

Wilhelm von BezoldThinkers

Wilhelm von Bezold