Daniel Bernoulli

Daniel Bernoulli
Daniel Bernoulli
Born	8 February 1700 Groningen, Dutch Republic
Died	17 March 1782 (aged 82) Basel, Republic of the Swiss
Nationality	Swiss
Fields	Mathematics, physics, medicine
Alma mater	University of Basel (M.D., 1721) Heidelberg University University of Strasbourg
Thesis	'Dissertatio physico-medica de respiratione (Dissertation on the medical physics of respiration) (1721)
Known for	Bernoulli's principle Early kinetic theory of gases Thermodynamics
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Daniel Bernoulli FRS (/bərˈnuːli/; Swiss [bɛʁˈnʊli]; 8 February 1700 – 17 March 1782) was a Swiss mathematician and physicist and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family. He is particularly remembered for his applications of mathematics to mechanics, especially fluid mechanics, and for his pioneering work in probability and statistics. His name is commemorated in the Bernoulli's principle, a particular example of the conservation of energy, which describes the mathematics of the mechanism underlying the operation of two important technologies of the 20th century: the carburetor and the airplane wing.

Daniel Bernoulli was born in Groningen, in the Netherlands, into a family of distinguished mathematicians. The Bernoulli family came originally from Antwerp, at that time in the Spanish Netherlands, but emigrated to escape the Spanish persecution of the Huguenots. After a brief period in Frankfurt the family moved to Basel, in Switzerland.