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Categories: Leiden University faculty, Fellows of the Royal Society, People from 's-Hertogenbosch, 1742 deaths, Leiden University alumni
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Willem 's Gravesande  's Gravesande  Gravesand  Gravesande  Jakob 's Gravesande
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Willem Jacob 's Gravesande was a Dutch mathematician and natural philosopher, chiefly remembered for developing experimental demonstrations of the laws of classical mechanics and the first experimental measurement of kinetic energy. Wikipedia
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Willem Jacob 's Gravesande was a Dutch mathematician and natural philosopher, chiefly remembered for developing experimental demonstrations of the laws of classical mechanics and the first experimental measurement of kinetic energy. Wikipedia
IS A
homo
AWARD RECEIVED
Fellow of the Royal Society
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
Netherlands
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
DOCTORAL ADVISOR
Johannes Voet
DOCTORAL STUDENT
Jean-Nicolas-Sébastien Allamand
Frederik Bernard Albinus
Johannes Oosterdijk Schacht
Alexander Comrie
EDUCATED AT
Leiden University
EMPLOYER
Leiden University
FIELD OF WORK
physics
GIVEN NAME
Jacobus
INFLUENCED BY
Newton
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
Latin
MEMBER OF
Royal Society
OCCUPATION
astronomer
mathematician
philosopher
physicist
professeur des universités
PLACE OF BIRTH
's-Hertogenbosch
PLACE OF DEATH
Leiden
RESIDENCE
Netherlands
SEX OR GENDER
male
STUDENT
Jean-Nicolas-Sébastien Allamand
Frederik Bernard Albinus
Alexander Comrie
WRITING LANGUAGE
Latin
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Willem 's Gravesande
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Willem 's Gravesande
Wikipedia Redirections
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's Gravesande, Gravesand, Gravesande, Jakob 's Gravesande, Willem 's-Gravesande, Willem 'sGravesande, Willem Jacob 's Gravesande, William Jakob s'Gravesande, William James s'Gravesande
Wikidata Alias
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W.J. 's Gravesande

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