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his father died. In 1752, Georg was enrolled in the secondary school in Damstadt. Thanks to his hard work and creativity, he gained few prizes. Pastor’s family did not suffer from poverty, but they did not [...] outstanding teacher of young Georg was the physics and maths lecturer, Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, who worked also in the astronomical observatory in the university. The time of studies was not easy for Lichtenberg [...] planning to write his own textbook, but he never did that. Although, he had never published any bigger work in natural history with his name, he was considered as one of the most outstanding contemporary scholars
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have invented the device. However, it is unclear whether he had been familiar with Wilcke’s work or whether his work serves as an example of an independent development. The operations with the electrophorus [...] electrical charges. However, most researchers in the field of electricity remained ignorant of Wilcke’s work; and the electrophorus was particularly made known by the Italian Alessandro Volta (who is best known [...] other electrical phenomena) be explained with both conceptual ideas. However, another researcher worked with the electrophorus, and he seemingly made an observation that could be used as evidence for the
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have invented the device. However, it is unclear whether he had been familiar with Wilcke’s work or whether his work serves as an example of an independent development. The operations with the electrophorus [...] his father died. In 1752, Georg was enrolled in the secondary school in Damstadt. Thanks to his hard work and creativity, he gained few prizes. Pastor’s family did not suffer from poverty, but they did not [...] outstanding teacher of young Georg was the physics and maths lecturer, Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, who worked also in the astronomical observatory in the university. The time of studies was not easy for Lichtenberg
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t of the atomic theory because the original works of Leucippus and Democritus were lost and are known only through Aristotle’s criticism. Aristotle’s works were kept and expanded in the Is- lamic culture [...] cide in September of 1906. The atom gets a substructure Even before Einstein’s and Smoluchowski’s work helped to establish a consensus about the accuracy of the atomic description of matter, some researchers [...] actually contradicted the initial understanding of the atom as being indivisi- ble. In fact, Faraday’s work on electrolysis from the 1830s could have raised questions about the fundamen- tal and indivisible
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child of twelve born to James and Martha Rutherford. His father worked making wheels for carts, and as an engineer. Later, his father worked as a flax-miller. In contrast, his mother was an English teacher [...] was very important to his par- ents. James Rutherford’s work was also very im- portant to the development of his son’s personality. His father’s work required the family to move quite often. In 1876, James [...] had a reputation as being an outstanding researcher and innovator working at the forefront of electrical technology. He chose to work with Professor Jo- seph John Thomson at Cambridge University’s Cavendish
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that is conserved, and thus there is a direct ratio between the mechanical work and the heat that can be produced by the work. Joule started to talk, and while he was talking he felt more and more that [...] had raised his attention to a certain aspect of a well-known principle: The conversion of mechanical work or electricity into heat. Even though this convertibility was established, what puzzled Joule was [...] was a newly appointed professor of physics in Glasgow, he had studied in Cambridge and afterwards worked with the French Victor Regnault, the leading experimentalist in the sciences of heat. Having gained
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Rumford’s work with re- spect to energy conservation, the importance of Lavoisier's work lies not in the fact that his system can be seen as the accepted theory – and actually Rumford’s work did not change [...] became familiar with the work of Victor Regnault and Sadi Carnot. The latter had demon- strated that the work of a steam engine is depend- ing on the temperature difference, thus the work was not equivalent [...] responsi- ble for establishing his work, but also William Thomson, who later became Lord Kelvin. Yet, Joule himself did not start from scratch and par- ticularly referred to the work of Benjamin Thomp- son, Count
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opment of the atomic theory as the original works of Leucippus and Democritus were lost and were actually known only through his criti- cism. Aristotle’s works were kept and expanded in the Islamic culture [...] education. However, he soon left school and started helping his father. When John was 12, he started working as a teacher in a local school. He earned his living and provided himself with a quiet, untroubled [...] the President of the Society. Over a period of 50 years, Dalton present- ed 116 of his scientific works. In addition, Dalton created his private laboratory in the building be- longing to the Manchester
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the son of a weaver who owned a small piece of land, and like many children of his era, John had to work from the very early age. However, he finally had made it: Since a couple of years, or, to be more [...] re- searches that were triggered by this question the schoolboy had asked him. Dalton had been working a lot in the labora- tory, but no longer focusing on the substances that could be composed (or produced [...] fixed numbers, and why did these numbers have a certain ratio with each other? Going through the works of ancient chemists had not been that fruitful – Lavoisier was cer- tainly the master who had laid
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education. However, he soon left school and started helping his father. When John was 12, he started working as a teacher in a local school. He earned his living and provided himself with a quiet, untroubled [...] the President of the Society. Over a period of 50 years, Dalton present- ed 116 of his scientific works. In addition, Dalton created his private laboratory in the building be- longing to the Manchester