List of things named after Hermann von Helmholtz
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Hermann von Helmholtz (1821 – 1894), German physician and physicist who made significant contributions to several widely varied areas of modern science, is the eponym of the topics listed below.
Mathematics, physics and chemistry
- Gibbs–Helmholtz equation
- Helmholtz coil
- Helmholtz condition
- Helmholtz decomposition
- Helmholtz equation
- Helmholtz flow
- Helmholtz free energy
- Helmholtz free entropy
- Kelvin–Helmholtz instability
- Helmholtz layer
- Helmholtz minimum dissipation theorem
- Helmholtz motion
- Helmholtz reciprocity
- Helmholtz resonance
- Helmholtz theorem (classical mechanics)
- Helmholtz's theorems
- Helmholtz–Kohlrausch effect
- Helmholtz-Smoluchowski equation
- Smith-Helmholtz invariant