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Old 10-21-2009, 07:49 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by Cloud View Post
who is Kevin Helmholz and why is he stealing my thunder?
These dudes. I think they pre-date you. :p
  • Kelvin, Lord (William Thomson), "Hydrokinetic solutions and observations," Philosophical Magazine, vol. 42, pages 362–377 (1871).
  • Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von, "Über discontinuierliche Flüssigkeits-Bewegungen [On the discontinuous movements of fluids]," Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin [Monthly Reports of the Royal Prussian Academy of Philosophy in Berlin], vol. 23, pages 215 ff (1868).
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