Hermann von Helmholtz
Noun
Meaning
German physiologist and physicist (1821-1894)
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Examples
It has been suggested that at least some of these "Lenard rays" were actually X-rays. citation Hermann von Helmholtz formulated mathematical equations for X-rays.
The physicist Hermann von Helmholtz assisted him in the work over night and returned with the comment that it was "natural" and "very understandable".
Hermann von Helmholtz puts forward the idea of the heat death of the universe in 1854, the same year that Clausius established the importance of dQ/T ( Clausius's theorem ) (though he did not yet name the quantity).
This phenomenon was termed "Farbenglut" by Hermann von Helmholtz and "fluorence" by Ralph M. Evans.