German physiologist and physicist (1821-1894)

Usage examples of helmholtz.

As Haley closed the office door from inside, Helmholtz hunched over a drawing board, pretending deep concentration.

Leroy, Helmholtz reflected, would be incapable even of recalling his own name at that point.

Bert had qualified for the Ten Square Band three months before, Helmholtz had turned him over to the best trumpet teacher in town, Larry Fink, for the final touches of grace and color.

A lot of his luster had been lost in verbal scuffles with Helmholtz over expenses of the band.

He had self-respect on a scale Helmholtz had never seen him exhibit before.

Professor Helmholtz of Bonn, in which it is maintained that a certain portion of force is lost in every natural process, being converted into unchangeable heat, so that the universe will come to a stand-still at last, all force passing into heat, and all heat into a state of equilibrium.

In connection with this statement, it is interesting to refer to the experiments of Helmholtz on the rapidity of transmission of the nervous actions.

Hermann von Helmholtz had argued that these were the steps in having a new idea.

I thought I was in Hell, and that you were with me, and that Professor Helmholtz was Satan.

Hermann von Helmholtz and Lord Kelvin independently proposed a solution that could give geology more time.

The following, proposed by Helmholtz, is the theory most generally accepted: The lens is held in place back of the pupil by the suspensory ligament.

I proceeded to smash materialism, rationalism, and all the philosophy of Tyndall, Helmholtz, Darwin and the rest of the 1860 people into smithereens.

Men could not reward Shakespeare, or Darwin, or Newton, or Helmholtz for their services any more than we could pay the Lord for the use of His sunshine.