• John Herapath (30 May 1790 – 24 February 1868) was an English physicist who gave a partial account of the kinetic theory of gases in 1820 though it was...
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  • Herapath is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: John Herapath (1790–1868), English physicist William Bird Herapath (1820–1868), British...
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    earlier and equally neglected partial accounts by Daniel Bernoulli and John Herapath. He published it, at his own expense, in his book Thoughts on the Mental...
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    establishment of the United States Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C. May – John Herapath draws up a partial account of the kinetic theory of gases. Joseph Bienaimé...
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    dynamical systems and Hamiltonian mechanics belong to mathematical physics. John Herapath used the term for the title of his 1847 text on "mathematical principles...
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  • United States (1937–2016) Joseph Henry – United States (1797–1878) John Herapath – U.K. (1790–1868) Carl Hermann – Germany (1898–1961) Gustav Ludwig...
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    Bernoulli, this theory was advanced by the successive labours of John Herapath, John James Waterston, James Joule, and particularly Rudolf Clausius, to...
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  • January 7 – Great Comet of 1831 (C/1831 A1, 1830 II) first observed by John Herapath. March 7 – Royal Astronomical Society receives its Royal Charter. Heinrich...
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    also been one of the few people receptive to the neglected work of John Herapath on the kinetic theory of gases. He was further profoundly influenced...
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  • William Herapath (1796–1868) was an English analytical chemist and political reformer. Herapath was born in Bristol, where father was a maltster in St...
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