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...

Herapath is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: John Herapath (1790–1868), English physicist William Bird Herapath (1820–1868), British...

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...

dynamical systems and Hamiltonian mechanics belong to mathematical physics. John Herapath used the term for the title of his 1847 text on "mathematical principles...

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...

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...

Bernoulli, this theory was advanced by the successive labours of John Herapath, John James Waterston, James Joule, and particularly Rudolf Clausius, to...

William Herapath (1796–1868) was an English analytical chemist and political reformer. Herapath was born in Bristol, where father was a maltster in St...

United States (1937–2016) Joseph Henry – United States (1797–1878) John Herapath – U.K. (1790–1868) Carl Hermann – Germany (1898–1961) Gustav Ludwig...

could be reflected, refracted and polarised in the same way as light. John Herapath independently formulated a kinetic theory in 1820, but mistakenly associated...