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Ludwig A. Colding

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Danish engineer and physicist (1815-1888)

ScientistsLived 1815 to 1888 · aged 72
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Ludwig August Colding was a Danish civil engineer and physicist who articulated the principle of conservation of energy contemporaneously with, and independently of, James Prescott Joule and Julius Robert von Mayer though his contribution was largely overlooked and neglected.

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1886Decoration of the Cross of Honour of the Dannebrog
1867Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog

Scientists born in the 1810s 6

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Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1815 to 1888 · aged 72
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