Hermann von Helmholtz memorial (Berlin)

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Born Aug. 31, 1821, Potsdam, Prussia, and died Sept. 8, 1894, Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany, Hermann von Helmholtz was a German scientist, one of the greatest of the 19th century. After training in medicine, he taught physiology and later physics at several German universities. He made fundamental contributions to physiology, optics, electrodynamics, mathematics, acoustics, and meteorology, but is best known for his statement (1847) of the law of conservation of energy. He invented several measurement instruments, including the myograph, ophthalmoscope, and ophthalmometer. He described body heat and energy, nerve conduction, and the physiology of the eye.

The desire for appreciation of the great scientist Hermann von Helmholtz by a monument was taken shortly after his death. After competitions, which extended over several years, the Berlin Academy of Art student Ernst Herter received to design the work.
Herter has created a larger than life figure of Helmholtz in white Tyrolean marble, which stands on a structured base of reddish Bavarian marble.
The location of the monument installation is in the atrium of the university, directly to the input axis of the gate to the building entrance. On 6 June 1899 was the inauguration of this very site.

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