Science · 1814–1878

Robert Mayer

German physician and physicist who pioneered the study of thermodynamics

Did you know?He was one of the first scientists to propose the law of conservation of energy.

Julius Robert von Mayer (25 November 1814 – 20 March 1878) was a German physician, chemist, and physicist and one of the founders of thermodynamics.

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