Daniel BernoulliDied 17 Mar 1782 at age 82 (born 8 Feb 1700). Swiss mathematician who was the most distinguished in the second generation of the Bernoulli family dynasty of mathematicians. His talents were prodigous, spanning medicine, biology, physiology, mechanics, physics, astronomy, and oceanography. His principal work, Hydrodynamica (1734, publ. 1738) on fluid dynamics provides formulas for velocity, duration and quantity of fluid flow out of the opening of a container. Bernoulli's famous theorem, based on the conservation of energy, states the total mechanical energy of the flowing fluid remains constant. This total is comprised of the energy associated with fluid pressure, the gravitational potential energy of elevation, and the kinetic energy of fluid motion.«Birth date: 8 Feb 1700 (New Style) is 29 Jan 1700 (Old Style). |
