Mathematician:Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz

Mathematician
German physicist and medical doctor known (among many other things) for his theories on the conservation of energy, work in electrodynamics, chemical thermodynamics, and on a mechanical foundation of thermodynamics.

Nationality
German

History

 * Born: 31 August 1821 in Potsdam, Prussia (now Germany)
 * Died: 8 September 1894 in Berlin, Germany

Theorems and Definitions

 * Helmholtz's Theorem

Publications

 * 1847: On the Conservation of Force