Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille

Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille (April 22, 1797 - December 26, 1869) was a French physician and physiologist.

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April 22 - 1797 - December 26 - 1869 - French - Physician - Physiologist

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Poiseuille was born in Paris, France.

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Paris - France

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From 1815 to 1816 he studied at the École Polytechnique in Paris. He was trained in physics and mathematics. In 1828 he earned his D.Sc. degree with a dissertation entitled Recherches sur la force du coeur aortique. He was interested in the flow of a human blood in narrow tubes.

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1815 - 1816 - École Polytechnique - Physics - Mathematics - 1828 - D.Sc. - Human - Blood

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In 1838 he experimentally derived and in 1840 and 1846 formulated and published Poiseuille's law (or Hagen-Poiseuille law, named also after Gotthilf Heinrich Ludwig Hagen (1797-1884)). This concerns the voluminal laminar stationary flow of incompressible uniform viscous liquid (so-called Newtonian fluid) through a cylindrical tube with constant circular cross-section. It can be successfully applied to blood flow in capillaries and veins, to air flow in lung alveoli, for the flow through a drinking straw or through a hypodermic needle.

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1838 - 1840 - 1846 - Poiseuille's law - Gotthilf Heinrich Ludwig Hagen - 1797 - 1884 - Laminar - Stationary - Flow - Incompressible - Viscous - Newtonian fluid - Capillaries - Vein - Lung - Alveoli - Hypodermic needle

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He died in Paris.

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