PHYSICIST

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Julius von Mayer has received more than 187,008 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Julius von Mayer is the 124th most popular physicist (down from 112th in 2019), the 401st most popular biography from Germany (up from 416th in 2019) and the 18th 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 124 out of 851. Before him are Joseph von Fraunhofer, K. Alex Müller, James Franck, Isamu Akasaki, Javier Solana, and Isidor Isaac Rabi. After him are C. V. Raman, Val Logsdon Fitch, François Englert, Robert Coleman Richardson, Arno Allan Penzias, and Frits Zernike.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1814, Julius von Mayer ranks 8. Before him are Jean-François Millet, Taras Shevchenko, Samuel Colt, Mikhail Lermontov, Adolphe Sax, and Anders Jonas Ångström. After him are Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Henri Nestlé, Hong Xiuquan, Jenny von Westphalen, August Grisebach, and James Joseph Sylvester. 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, George V of Hanover, Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora, Mirza Fatali Akhundov, and Ernst Heinrich Weber.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Julius von Mayer ranks 401 out of 7,253. Before him are Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1776), Sepp Maier (1944), Prince Claus of the Netherlands (1926), Bruno of Cologne (1030), Wolfram von Eschenbach (1170), and Joachim Peiper (1915). After him are Hans Luther (1879), Otto Diels (1876), Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732), Fanny Mendelssohn (1805), Maria Alexandrovna (1824), and Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Julius von Mayer ranks 18. Before him are Otto von Guericke (1602), Carl Zeiss (1816), Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804), Ernst Ruska (1906), Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787), and James Franck (1882). After him are Arno Allan Penzias (1933), Ernst Abbe (1840), Walther Bothe (1891), Rudolf Mössbauer (1929), George Paget Thomson (1892), and Karl Schwarzschild (1873).

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