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Born February 18, 1838 • Austria
Died February 19, 1916 (aged 78) • Germany
Subjects Of Study Mach number • Mach’s bands • Mach’s principle • kinesthesis • wave • measurement • knowledge • sensation
Helmholtz.
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Norman Robert Campbell
British physicist and philosopher
Johann Lambert, detail of a lithograph by Gottfried Englemann, after a portrait by Pierre-Roch Vigneron
Johann Heinrich Lambert
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John Locke
John Locke
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Condillac, engraving by Pierre-Nicolas Ransonnette
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
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Erwin Schrödinger
Erwin Schrödinger
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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
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Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg
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Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
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Lord Rayleigh, engraving by R. Cottot.
Lord Rayleigh
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Kip Thorne
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Espagnat, Bernard d'
Bernard d’Espagnat
French physicist and philosopher
Anders Jonas Ångström
Swedish physicist
Jean Buridan
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Mme du Châtelet, detail of a portrait by an unknown French artist; in a private collection
Gabrielle-Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise du Châtelet
French scientist and philosopher
Henry Longueville Mansel
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Gustav Fechner
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Albert Of Saxony
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Henrik Steffens
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John Sergeant
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