John Herapath (30 May 1790 – 24 February 1868) was an English physicist who gave a partial account of the kinetic theory of gases in 1820 though it was...

Herapath is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: John Herapath (1790–1868), English physicist William Bird Herapath (1820–1868), British...

earlier and equally neglected partial accounts by Daniel Bernoulli and John Herapath. He published it, at his own expense, in his book Thoughts on the Mental...

dynamical systems and Hamiltonian mechanics belong to mathematical physics. John Herapath used the term for the title of his 1847 text on "mathematical principles...

William Herapath (1796–1868) was an English analytical chemist and political reformer. Herapath was born in Bristol, where father was a maltster in St...

establishment of the United States Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C. May – John Herapath draws up a partial account of the kinetic theory of gases. Joseph Bienaimé...

January 7 – Great Comet of 1831 (C/1831 A1, 1830 II) first observed by John Herapath. March 7 – Royal Astronomical Society receives its Royal Charter. Heinrich...

United States (1937–2016) Joseph Henry – United States (1797–1878) John Herapath – U.K. (1790–1868) Carl Hermann – Germany (1898–1961) Gustav Ludwig...

Bernoulli, this theory was advanced by the successive labours of John Herapath, John James Waterston, James Joule, and particularly Rudolf Clausius, to...

February 11 – Léon Foucault (born 1819), French physicist. February 24 – John Herapath (born 1790), English physicist. May 22 – Julius Plücker (born 1801)...

could be reflected, refracted and polarised in the same way as light. John Herapath independently formulated a kinetic theory in 1820, but mistakenly associated...

Dionysius Lardner, Peter Nicholson, John Radford Young, Henry Moseley, John Herapath, Thomas Hewitt Key, William Ritchie, and John Walker. De Morgan's work during...

Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes publishes the first synoptic weather maps. – John Herapath develops some ideas in the kinetic theory of gases but mistakenly associates...

Lomonosov (1747), Georges-Louis Le Sage (ca. 1780, published 1818), John Herapath (1816) and John James Waterston (1843), which connected their research with...

John Frederic Daniell, English chemist and physicist (died 1845) May 23 – Jules Dumont d'Urville, French explorer (died 1842) May 30 – John Herapath,...

also been one of the few people receptive to the neglected work of John Herapath on the kinetic theory of gases. He was further profoundly influenced...

Scottish scientist, inventor and writer (born 1781) 24 February – John Herapath, physicist and railway journalist (born 1790) 25 February – James Parke...

Dulong-Petit law for the specific heat capacity of a crystal 1820 – John Herapath develops some ideas in the kinetic theory of gases but mistakenly associates...

Augustin Fresnel shows that light is made up of a traverse wave motion. John Herapath publishes a kinetic theory of gases. Antide Janvier publishes his textbook...

Contributors included John George Children, Edward Daniel Clarke, Philip Crampton, Alexander Crichton, James Cumming, John Herapath, William George Horner...

also employed John Herapath, a contributor to the Mechanics' Magazine, as an engineer. The subscription list was padded, and, Herapath later alleged,...

interacts with matter so that the law of gravitation arises. In 1821, John Herapath tried to apply his co-developed model of the kinetic theory of gases...

(July 1835). Nursey, Perry Fairfax (ed.). "On Railways. By John Herapath, Esq. No. VII. Sir John Rennie's Railway to Brighton and Shoreham". Iron: An Illustrated...

be used for polarizing light. It was discovered in 1852 by William Bird Herapath, a Bristol surgeon and chemist. One of his pupils found that adding iodine...

replacement as secretary, and his other interests. In 1836 he sold it to John Herapath. In 1844 Walter became manager of the company manufacturing Kamptulicon;...

brought attention to forgotten precursors of kinetic theory like John Herapath and John James Waterston, who formulated the law of equal distribution in...

(academic) John Henry Dallmeyer John Henry Michell John Henry Poynting John Henry Schwarz John Herapath John Herbert Chapman John Heuser John Hinch (mathematician)...

dies, and is replaced by Michael Herapath, who has stowed away in pursuit of his lover, Mrs Wogan. Jack rates Herapath a midshipman despite his American...

married Mary Ann (Marion) Herapath (1851–1914) in 1874. She was the eldest daughter of the nine children of Spencer Herapath, a successful stockbroker...

Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain), 1848 [1837], p. 8 Herapath, John, ed. (1838), "The Hull and Selby Railway", The Railway Magazine, 4:...