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Helmholtz

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Helm·holtz  (hlmhlts), Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von 1821-1894.
German physicist and physiologist who formulated the mathematical law of the conservation of energy (1847) and invented an ophthalmoscope (1851).
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Noun1.HelmholtzHelmholtz - German physiologist and physicist (1821-1894)
Baron Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, Hermann von Helmholtz


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So it happened that when Bell ran to Ellis as a young enthusiast and told his experiments, Ellis informed him that Helmholtz had done the same things several years before and done them more completely.
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