Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz ForMemRS (German: [ˈhɛʁ.man vɔn ˈhɛlmˌhɔlts]; 31 August 1821 – 8 September 1894) was a German physicist and physician...
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The Kelvin–Helmholtz instability (after Lord Kelvin and Hermann von Helmholtz) is a fluid instability that occurs when there is velocity shear in a single...
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association is the German physiologist and physicist Hermann von Helmholtz. The annual budget of the Helmholtz Association amounts to €5.8 billion, of which...
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a solenoidal (divergence-free) vector field. It is named after Hermann von Helmholtz. For a vector field F ∈ C 1 ( V , R n ) {\displaystyle \mathbf {F}...
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particle. In optics, the Helmholtz equation is the wave equation for the electric field. The equation is named after Hermann von Helmholtz, who studied it in...
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Thévenin's theorem (redirect from Helmholtz–Thévenin theorem)
theorem was independently derived in 1853 by the German scientist Hermann von Helmholtz and in 1883 by Léon Charles Thévenin (1857–1926), an electrical...
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A Helmholtz coil is a device for producing a region of nearly uniform magnetic field, named after the German physicist Hermann von Helmholtz. It consists...
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resonance in a cavity, an effect named after the German physicist Hermann von Helmholtz. This type of resonance occurs when air is forced in and out of...
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chromatic scale. Fully described and normalized by the German scientist Hermann von Helmholtz, it uses a combination of upper and lower case letters (A to G)...
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of scientific works. She was the second wife of the physicist, Hermann von Helmholtz. Brought up in a circle in which intelligence and character were...
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The Helmholtz machine (named after Hermann von Helmholtz and his concept of Helmholtz free energy) is a type of artificial neural network that can account...
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of pure substances. The concept of free energy was developed by Hermann von Helmholtz, a German physicist, and first presented in 1882 in a lecture called...
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Munich and Berlin, where he studied under Gustav R. Kirchhoff and Hermann von Helmholtz. In 1880, Hertz obtained his PhD from the University of Berlin,...
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1882 paper entitled "Die Thermodynamik chemischer Vorgänge" by Hermann von Helmholtz. It describes how the Gibbs free energy, which was presented originally...
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Knew Everything". His work influenced that of William Herschel, Hermann von Helmholtz, James Clerk Maxwell, and Albert Einstein. Young is credited with...
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The Helmholtz–Kohlrausch effect (after Hermann von Helmholtz and V. A. Kohlrausch) is a perceptual phenomenon wherein the intense saturation of spectral...
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The statue of Hermann von Helmholtz by Ernst Herter is located at Humboldt University of Berlin in Berlin-Mitte, Germany. D. K. (6 October 2015). DK Eyewitness...
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The Kelvin–Helmholtz mechanism is an astronomical process that occurs when the surface of a star or a planet cools. The cooling causes the internal pressure...
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The Young–Helmholtz theory (based on the work of Thomas Young and Hermann von Helmholtz in the 19th century), also known as the trichromatic theory, is...
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temperament tuning (700 cents) of 1.4983 (relative to the ideal 1.50). Hermann von Helmholtz uses the ratio 301:200 (708 cents) as an example of an imperfect...
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article on the photoelectric effect by Philipp Lenard, who credited Hermann von Helmholtz for using the word in the area of electricity. However, the word...
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in Königsberg, Prussia, the son of the physicist Hermann von Helmholtz and his first wife Olga, née von Velten. After studying in Stuttgart and Munich,...
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Hermann von Helmholtz (1821 – 1894), German physician and physicist who made significant contributions to several widely varied areas of modern science...
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Helmholtz most commonly refers to Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894), German physician and physicist. Helmholtz or Helmholz may also refer to: Places named...
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Double layer (surface science) (redirect from Helmholtz double layer)
(electrolyte), a common boundary (interface) among the two phases appears. Hermann von Helmholtz was the first to realize that charged electrodes immersed in electrolyte...
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and made his experiments upon channels of various sizes. In 1858 Hermann von Helmholtz published his seminal paper "Über Integrale der hydrodynamischen...
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In fluid mechanics, Helmholtz's theorems, named after Hermann von Helmholtz, describe the three-dimensional motion of fluid in the vicinity of vortex...
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Unconscious inference (section The Helmholtz machine)
is a term coined in 1867 by the German physicist and polymath Hermann von Helmholtz to describe an involuntary, pre-rational and reflex-like mechanism...
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(1850). Thomson's views were then elaborated over the next decade by Hermann von Helmholtz and William Rankine. The idea of the heat death of the universe...
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This theory was later refined by James Clerk Maxwell and Hermann von Helmholtz. As Helmholtz puts it, "the principles of Newton's law of mixture were...
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