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Julius von Mayer

1814 - 1878

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Julius Robert von Mayer (25 November 1814 – 20 March 1878) was a German physician, chemist, and physicist and one of the founders of thermodynamics. He is best known for enunciating in 1841 one of the original statements of the conservation of energy or what is now known as one of the first versions of the first law of thermodynamics, namely that "energy can be neither created nor destroyed". In 1842, Mayer described the vital chemical process now referred to as oxidation as the primary source of energy for any living creature. He also proposed that plants convert light into chemical energy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Julius von Mayer is the 176th most popular physicist (down from 124th in 2019), the 465th most popular biography from Germany (down from 401st in 2019) and the 28th most popular German Physicist.

Julius von Mayer is most famous for his discovery of the law of the conservation of energy.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Julius von Mayer ranks 176 out of 851. Before him are George E. Smith, Polykarp Kusch, Edmond Becquerel, Martinus J. G. Veltman, Leon Cooper, and James Jeans. After him are Herbert Kroemer, Martin Lewis Perl, Richard E. Taylor, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Burton Richter, and Isamu Akasaki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1814, Julius von Mayer ranks 9. Before him are Taras Shevchenko, Mikhail Lermontov, Samuel Colt, Anders Jonas Ångström, Adolphe Sax, and Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. After him are Edwin Stanton, Hong Xiuquan, Henri Nestlé, Jenny von Westphalen, James Joseph Sylvester, and Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours. Among people deceased in 1878, Julius von Mayer ranks 7. Before him are Pope Pius IX, Victor Emmanuel II of Italy, Archduke Franz Karl of Austria, Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, Claude Bernard, and Joseph Henry. After him are Charles-François Daubigny, Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies, Elias Magnus Fries, George V of Hanover, Ernst Heinrich Weber, and Angelo Secchi.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Julius von Mayer ranks 465 out of 7,253. Before him are Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743), Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria (1847), Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (1750), Maria Amalia of Saxony (1724), Martin Behaim (1459), and Fritz Todt (1891). After him are Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (1911), Joachim Löw (1960), Ernst Busch (1885), Ananda Mahidol (1925), Erich Kästner (1899), and Herbert Kroemer (1928).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Julius von Mayer ranks 28. Before him are Rudolf Mössbauer (1929), George Paget Thomson (1892), Hans Georg Dehmelt (1922), Gerd Binnig (1947), Ernst Abbe (1840), and Polykarp Kusch (1911). After him are Herbert Kroemer (1928), Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742), Hans Geiger (1882), Horst Ludwig Störmer (1949), Max Delbrück (1906), and Karl Schwarzschild (1873).

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