Born Postdam, (Germany), 31 August 1821
Died Berlin, Germany, 8 September 1894
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Cahan, David (1993). Hermann von Helmholtz and the Foundations of Nineteenth‐Century Science. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Helmholtz, Hermann von (1995). Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays, edited by David Cahan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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Schons, P.A. (2007). Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von. In: Hockey, T., et al. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_595
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