Hőanyag-elmélet:
Joseph Black (1728 – 1799)
Scottish physician, known for his
discoveries of latent heat, specific
heat
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier
(1743 – 1794)
„A hő mozgás.”
(1795)
Sir Benjamin Thompson,
(Reichsgraf von Rumford),
(1753 – 1814)
German physicisian 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 law of
thermodynamics, namely:
„Energy can be neither created nor
destroyed.”
Julius Robert von Mayer
(1814 – 1878)
Joule's apparatus for measuring the
mechanical equivalent of heat (1845)
Ludvig August Colding
(1815-1888)
Dán fizikus, Oersted
tanítványa
„…ahogy igaz, hogy az
emberi lélek halhatatlan,
úgy kell lennie egy
általános törvénynek,
amely szerint a természet
erői elpusztíthatatlanok.”
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz
(1821 – 1894)