| Authorised form of name | Helmholtz; Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von (1821 - 1894) |
| Other forms of name | Hermann von |
| Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand |
| Other forms of surname | Von Helmholtz |
| Dates | 1821 - 1894 |
| Place of birth | Potsdam, Germany |
| Date of birth | 31 August 1821 |
| Place of death | Berlin, Germany |
| Date of death | 08 September 1894 |
| Research field | Energetics |
| Physiological acoustics |
| Physiological optics |
| Epistemology |
| Hydrodynamics |
| Electrodynamics |
| Membership category | Foreign Member |
| Date of election | 24/05/1860 |
| RSActivity | Medals and prizes:
Copley Medal 1873
Lectures:
Croonian 1864 |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1895-1896 vol 59 pp xvii-xxx signed by A W R
References:
Gillian Beer, 'Translation or Transformation? The Relations of Literature and Science' in NR 1990 vol 44 pp 81-99
J T Lloyd, 'Background to the Joule-Mayer Controversy' in NR 1970 vol 25 pp 211-225
H G L, 'A Fragment of History' in NR 1938 vol 1 pp 28-31
B Heap, 'From the dust of the Earth? Things come to life: spontaneous generation revisited by Henry Harris' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 107-108
A Warwick, 'Righting the history of electrodynamics. Electrodynamics from Ampere to Einstein, by O Darrigol' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 253-254
D Cahan 'The awarding of the Copley Medal and the discovery of the law of conservation of energy,; Joule, Mayer and Heimholtz revisted |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/51690801 |
| Code | NA5518 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1860/04 | Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| MC/6/91 | Letter from H [Hermann] Helmholtz, Heidelberg, to W H [William Hallowes] Miller, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society | 10 June 1860 |
| IM/002029 | Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von | 1992 |
| NLB/5/126 | Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Herrn Professor Emil du Bois-Reymond | 23 March 1891 |
| NLB/10/37 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 10 September 1894 |
| NLB/10/291 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Fellow of the Royal Society | 5 November 1894 |
| NLB/5/826 | Copy letter from William Thomson, to Herrn Professor Helmholtz, Foreign Member of the Royal Society | 29 October 1891 |
| MC/6 | Volume 6 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1859-1863 |
| MC/15/219 | Letter from Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, Charlottenburg, to the London Royal Society | 2 November 1891 |