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Inspirational Quotes by Hermann von Helmholtz (German Physiologist)

Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–94,) fully Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, was a German physiologist and physicist. One of the most versatile scientists of the nineteenth century, he is celebrated for his achievements in sense perception, hydrodynamics, and non-Euclidean geometry. He also formulated the principle of energy conservation in 1847. He described body heat and energy, nerve conduction, and the physiology of the eye.

Born in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Prussia, he was successively professor of physiology at the universities of Konigsberg (1849,) Bonn (1855,) and Heidelberg (1858.) In 1871, he became a professor of physics in Berlin. He was distinguished in physiology, mathematics, meteorology, and experimental and mathematical physics, particularly optics and electrodynamics.

Helmholtz’s physiological works are connected with the eye, the ear, and the nervous system. His work on vision is regarded as fundamental to modern visual science. In 1850 he invented an ophthalmoscope (independently of Charles Babbage) to examine the inside of the eye.

Helmholtz is also celebrated for his analysis of the spectrum, his explanation of vowel sounds, his papers on the conservation of energy regarding muscular action, his paper on Conservation of Energy (1847,) on vortex motion in fluids, and on the vibrations of air in open pipes, and for researches into the development of electric current within a galvanic battery.

German mathematician science-historian Leo Königsberger wrote the biography Hermann von Helmholtz (3 vols., 1902–03.)

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A raised weight can produce work, but in doing so it must necessarily sink from its height, and, when it has fallen as deep as it can fall, its gravity remains as before, but it can no longer do work.
Hermann von Helmholtz
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