| LC control no. | no2014119776 |
|---|---|
| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Colding, Ludvig August, 1815-1888 |
| Variant(s) | Colding, Ludwig August, 1815-1888 |
| Birth date | 18150713 |
| Death date | 18880321 |
| Place of birth | Holbæk (Denmark) |
| Profession or occupation | Civil engineers Physicists |
| Found in | Nogle Sætninger om Kræfterne, 1856: title page (Ludvig August Colding) Ingeniøren og Fysikeren Ludvig August Colding, 1929 Ludvig Colding and the conservation of energy principle, 1972 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") |
| Associated language | dan |
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