Daniel Bernoulli
8 February 1700 – March 1782
Daniel Bernoulli (1700-1782) was a Swiss mathematician and physicist of the famous Bernoulli family, remembered above all for his work in fluid mechanics. His book Hydrodynamica introduced the principle relating fluid pressure and velocity now known as Bernoulli's principle, and he made pioneering contributions to probability, statistics, and the kinetic theory of gases. He won or shared the Grand Prize of the Paris Academy of Sciences ten times.
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Life events
Daniel Bernoulli was born in Groningen, where his father Johann Bernoulli held the chair of mathematics.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe Bernoulli family returned to Basel when Johann Bernoulli succeeded his late brother Jacob in the university's chair of mathematics.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgPressed by his father to pursue a practical career, Bernoulli studied medicine and earned a doctorate with a thesis on respiration in 1721.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgBernoulli's first mathematical work, published in Venice, brought him international attention.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgBernoulli moved to Saint Petersburg with his brother Nicolaus and was later joined there by his friend Leonhard Euler.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgBernoulli left Russia and took up a chair at the University of Basel, teaching anatomy and botany and later physics.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgBernoulli's masterpiece on fluid mechanics stated the relationship between pressure and flow speed now called Bernoulli's principle and anticipated the kinetic theory of gases.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgBernoulli became professor of physics at the University of Basel, a post he held until 1776, becoming famous for his experimental lectures.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgBernoulli died in Basel in March 1782, having won the Grand Prize of the Paris Academy of Sciences ten times during his career.
Source: en.wikipedia.org