In science, Johann Poggendorff (1796-1877) was a German physicist and editor of the famous peer-reviewed science journal Annalen der Physik, from 1824 to 1876, during which time he infamously rejected German physician-physicist Robert Mayer’s 1841 conservation of energy paper “On the Quantitative and Qualitative Determination of Forces”, wherein the postulate that “motion is converted into heat” was first enunciated, and German physician-physicist Hermann Helmholtz’s 1847 “On the Conservation of Force”, which presented one of the first versions of the conservation of force (or conservation of energy), depending on context.
To Poggendorff’s credit, to note, he did finally get wise and accept Rudolf Clausius’ 1850 “On the Moving Force of Heat and the Laws of Heat which may be Deduced Therefrom”, the founding article on thermodynamics. [1]
References
1. Clausius, Rudolf. (1850). “On the Moving Force of Heat and the Laws of Heat which may be Deduced Therefrom”, Communicated to the Academy of Berlin, Feb.; Published in Poggendorff’s Annalen, March-April, Vol. lxxix, pgs. 368, 500, and Translated in the Philosophical Magazine, July 1851, Vol. ii. pgs. 1, 102.
External links
● Johann Poggendorff – Wikipedia.
