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Robert Mayer
Julius Robert von Mayer 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 chem…
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science · German physician, chemist, knight, and physicist (1814–1878) · physicist · physician · chemist · also Robert Mayer, Julius von Mayer, Julius Robert von Mayer, Robert von Mayer, Mayer Yulius Robert, Mayer
Born 25 November 1814 · Died 20 March 1878 · Q57171
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1995· 1 entry
Published “An Integrative Model of Organizational Trust” in The Academy of Management Review — cited 28,314 times.
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1942· 1 entry
“Robert Mayer und das Energieprinzip, 1842-1942: Gedenkschrift zur 100. Wiederkehr der Entdeckung des Energieprinzips”
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1878· 1 entry
Died 1878-03-20.
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1871· 1 entry
Won Copley Medal (1871).
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1869· 1 entry
Awarded Poncelet Prize (1869).
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1867· 1 entry
Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1867).
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1862· 1 entry
By fellow physicist John Tyndall in a lecture at the London Royal Institution
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1859· 1 entry
By the philosophical faculty at the University of Tübingen
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1848· 2 entries
Two of his children died rapidly in succession, and Mayer's mental health deteriorated
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Calculated that in the absence of a source of energy the Sun would cool down in only 5000 years, and he suggested that the impact of meteorites kept it hot
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1842· 2 entries
Mayer described the vital chemical process now referred to as oxidation as the primary source of energy for any living creature
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Of the mechanical equivalent of heat was attributed to James Joule in the following year
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1841· 2 entries
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"
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Mayer returned to Heilbronn to practice medicine, but physics became his new passion
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1838· 1 entry
Studied at University of Tübingen (1838).
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1837· 1 entry
And some of his friends were arrested for wearing the couleurs of a forbidden organization
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1814· 1 entry
Born 1814-11-25.
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