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".

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• {{MacTutor|id=Helmholtz}}
• On the Conservation of Force Introduction to a Series of Lectures Delivered at Carlsruhe in the Winter of 1862?1863, English translation