Julius Robert von Mayer
Julius Robert von Mayer was a German physician, chemist, and physicist and one of the founders of thermodynamics. He is best known for enunciating in 1841 one of the original statements of the conservation of energy or what is now known as one of the first versions of the first law of thermodynamics, namely that "energy can be neither created nor destroyed". In 1842, Mayer described the vital chemical process now referred to as oxidation as the primary source of energy for any living creature.
Background
- Born in
- Heilbronn
- Educated at
- University of Tübingen
- Awards
- 🏆 Copley Medal🏆 Poncelet Prize
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
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1814
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Birth1878
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