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    Jakob II Bernoulli (17 October 1759, Basel – 3 July 1789, Saint Petersburg), younger brother of Johann III Bernoulli, was a Swiss physicist. Having finished...
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  • Jean), son of Johann II, astronomer, geographer and mathematician Jakob II Bernoulli (1759–1789; also known as Jacques), son of Johann II, physicist and mathematician...
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    Jacob Bernoulli (also known as James in English or Jacques in French; 6 January 1655 [O.S. 27 December 1654] – 16 August 1705) was one of the many prominent...
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    Johann II Bernoulli (also known as Jean; 18 May 1710, Basel – 17 July 1790, Basel) was the youngest of the three sons of the Swiss mathematician Johann...
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    Nicolaus II Bernoulli (also spelled as Niklaus or Nikolaus; 6 February 1695 in Basel – 31 July 1726 in Saint Petersburg) was a Swiss mathematician as were...
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    brothers, Niklaus and Johann II. Daniel Bernoulli was described by W. W. Rouse Ball as "by far the ablest of the younger Bernoullis". He is said to have had...
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    Johann Bernoulli (also known as Jean in French or John in English; 6 August [O.S. 27 July] 1667 – 1 January 1748) was a Swiss mathematician and was one...
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    of Basel. In 1704 he graduated from the University of Basel under Jakob Bernoulli and obtained his PhD five years later (in 1709) with a work on probability...
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    III Bernoulli (also known as Jean; 4 November 1744 in Basel – 13 July 1807 in Berlin), grandson of Johann Bernoulli and son of Johann II Bernoulli, was...
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  • Jacob II or Jakob II may refer to: Jacob II of Cilicia Jakob II Bernoulli Jakob von Baden, also known as Jakob II James II (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
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    Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD), also known as subacute spongiform encephalopathy or neurocognitive disorder due to prion disease, is a fatal neurodegenerative...
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    Johann and his brother Jakob Bernoulli derived the same solution, but Johann's derivation was incorrect, and he tried to pass off Jakob's solution as his own...
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    probability written by Jacob Bernoulli and published in 1713, eight years after his death, by his nephew, Niklaus Bernoulli. The seminal work consolidated...
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  • in his home town of Basle were the mathematicians Daniel Bernoulli and Johann II. Bernoulli. In 1754 Huber was an astronomer at the Royal Greenwich Observatory...
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  • Elisabeth Bernoulli (9 December 1873 – 22 February 1935) was a Swiss campaigner against alcoholism. Bernoulli was born in Basel, Switzerland, the daughter...
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  • eventual development of Einstein's theory of special relativity. In 1682, Jakob Bernoulli formulated the theory that the hardness of the bodies depended on the...
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    Stadt Basel. Vol. 3, Basel, 1924, Reprint 1968. August Bernoulli (1885), "Meyer zum Hasen, Jakob", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 21...
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    was given by Johann Bernoulli, the younger brother of the deceased Jacob Bernoulli (who had taught Euler's father). Johann Bernoulli and Euler soon got...
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    Benno Bernoulli (17 February 1876 – 12 September 1959) was a Swiss architect and city planner. Bernoulli was born in Basel, the son of Theodor Bernoulli, an...
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  • William Borlase, Cornish naturalist (died 1772) February 6 – Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (died 1726) May 3 – Henri Pitot, Italian-born French...
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    realised he could make a living as a writer, Hesse finally married Maria Bernoulli (of the famous family of mathematicians) in 1904, while her father, who...
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    mathematicians, such as Gottfried Leibniz, Leonhard Euler, and Nicholas I Bernoulli. These acquaintances started Goldbach's interest in mathematics. He briefly...
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  • Jakob Burckhardt was born on 13 July 1903 in Basel. He came from an old Basel family. His ancestors include a brother (Hieronimus) of Jacob Bernoulli...
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    university has been home to Erasmus of Rotterdam, Paracelsus, Daniel Bernoulli, Leonhard Euler, Jacob Burckhardt, Friedrich Nietzsche, Tadeusz Reichstein...
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    probability Ars Conjectandi, originally published in Latin in 1713, Jakob Bernoulli used the phrase "Ars Conjectandi sive Stochastice", which has been...
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    Buxtorf II (1599–1664), Protestant Christian Hebraist Jacob Bernoulli (1654–1705), mathematician Johann Bernoulli (1667–1748), mathematician Johann Jakob Wettstein...
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  • gravitation 1690 - James Bernoulli shows that the cycloid is the solution to the tautochrone problem 1691 - Johann Bernoulli shows that a chain freely...
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    published in 1711, was praised by the influential Swiss mathematician Johann Bernoulli. In The Hague, 's Gravesande also helped to establish the Journal littéraire...
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    Hydrodynamica, Daniel Bernoulli described a fundamental relationship between pressure, velocity, and density, now termed Bernoulli's principle, which provides...
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  • 25 – James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer (died 1776) May 18 – Johann II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (died 1790) June 10 – James Short, Scottish mathematician...
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