Robert Mayer Archive, ca. 1810-present.

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Robert Mayer Archive, ca. 1810-present.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82803776

Private and scientific correspondence, diaries, lecture notes, manuscripts, family records (baptism certificate, other certificates, matrimonial papers, bills of sale), decorations, objects (2 experimental machines, death mask), articles about Robert Mayer (often copies). Municipal documents about R. Mayer and the care of his memorials (Monument, Robert-Mayer- ).

ca. 2 m. and objects.

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Mayer, Julius Robert von, 1814-1878

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Physician and physicist. Mayer traveled to East India as a ship's physician doing bloodletting observations on human blood, this experience led him to a recognition of the equivalence of work and heat. In 1842 for the first time he published his reflections/considerations. After long priority battles he was recognized as the discoverer of law of 'conservation of energy'. From the description of Robert Mayer Archive, ca. 1810-present. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82803776 G...