Colding, Ludvig August, 1815-1888
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Name (Latin)
Deutsche Schule Addis Abeba
Other forms of name
Deutsche Schule (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
Deutsche Schule von Addis Abeba
German School Addis Ababa
Deutsche Schule in Addis Abeba
Date of birth
1815-07-13
Date of death
1888-03-21
Occupation
Civil engineers
Physicists
Associated Language
dan
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- Ingeniøren og Fysikeren Ludvig August Colding, 1929
- Ludvig Colding and the conservation of energy principle, 1972
- Nogle Sætninger om Kræfterne, 1856:title page (Ludvig August Colding)
- Wikipedia, September 9, 2014(Ludwig A. Colding; Ludwig August Colding; born July 13, 1815 in Holbæk, Denmark; died March 21, 1888; Danish civil engineer and physicist who articulated the principle of conservation of energy contemporaneouly with, and independently of, James Prescott Joule and Julius Robert von Mayer; Colding graduated from the Copenhagen Polytechnic Institute in 1841 and worked as a teacher before being appointed inspector of roads and bridges in Copenhagen in 1845; Colding's importance and influence grew until he was appointed state engineer for Copenhagen in 1857; he oversaw a vast range of public housing, transport, lighting and sanitation projects and gained a high reputation throughout Denmark and internationally; he retired from professional engineering in 1886; Colding found time for private scientific work in fluid mechanics, hydrology, oceanography and meteorology as well as electromagnetism and thermodynamics; he was largely responsible for founding the Danish Meteorological Institute in 1872, but is best remembered for what he himself termed the "principle of imperishability of the forces of nature")