Gustave Adolphe Hirn
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Obituary[1] (1815 - 1890)
"Among the many eminent men who have adorned our century, few have rendered greater services to the cause of science than Gustave Adolphe Hirm. The spread of knowledge has made genius of no country; and it is a singular fact that Hirn in France was pursuing his researches at about the same time and in the same field as Joule in England and Mayer in Germany. The laws which govern the utilisation of heat, if not discovered simultaneously by these three illustrious men, were placed by them on a solid experimental basis; and thermo.dynamics took its place as one of the first in importance of the physical sciences. But Him's great and comprehensive intellect..." More
- Read his obituary in The Engineer 1890/01/31.
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Sources of Information
- ↑ The Engineer 1890/03/21, p231.