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Helm⋅holtz

  [helm-hohlts]
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Her⋅mann Lud⋅wig Fer⋅di⋅nand von  [her-mahn loot-vik fer-di-nahnt fuhn] , 1821–94, German physiologist and physicist.
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Helm·holtz   (hělm'hōlts')   
German physicist and physiologist who formulated the mathematical law of the conservation of energy (1847) and invented an ophthalmoscope (1851).
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Helmholtz   (hělm'hōlts')  Pronunciation Key 
German physicist and physiologist who was a founder of the law of conservation of energy. Helmholtz did pioneering research on vision and invented an instrument for examining the interior of the eye in 1851.
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