Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (died 1878)

Julius von Mayer

German physician, chemist, knight, and physicist (1814–1878)

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…