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Ludwig A. Colding

Danish civil engineer and physicist

Died when: 72 years 252 days (872 months)
Star Sign: Cancer

 

Ludwig A. Colding

Ludwig August Colding (13 July 1815 – 21 March 1888) was a Danish civil engineer and physicist who articulated the principle of conservation of energy contemporaneously with, and independently of, James Prescott Joule and Julius Robert von Mayer though his contribution was largely overlooked and neglected.

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