Hermann von Helmholtz

Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (August 31, 1821 – September 8, 1894) was a German physician and physicist. In the words of the 1911 Britannica, "his life from first to last was one of devotion to science, and he must be accounted, on intellectual grounds, one of the foremost men of the 19th century".

Bibliography

• Cahan, D. (1993) Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz and the Foundations of Nineteenth Century Science, Los Angeles: University of California Press, ISBN 0520083342