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Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille pwäz-'wē (April 22, 1799 - December 26, 1869) was a French physician and physiologist. April 22 is the 112th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (113th in leap years). ... 1799 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... December 26 is the 360th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, 361st in leap years. ... 1869 (MDCCCLXIX) is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... Physician examining a child A physician is a person who practices medicine. ... Physiology (in Greek physis = nature and logos = word) is the study of the mechanical, physical, and biochemical functions of living organisms. ...


Poiseuille was born in Paris, France. The Eiffel Tower, the international symbol of the city For other uses, see Paris (disambiguation). ...


From 1815 to 1816 he studied at the École Polytechnique in Paris. He was trained in physics and mathematics. In 1828 he earned his D.Sc. degree with a dissertation entitled Recherches sur la force du coeur aortique. He was interested in the flow of human blood in narrow tubes. The Battle of New Orleans 1815 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1816 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... For other Écoles Polytechniques, see École Polytechnique de Montréal and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. ... Physics (from the Greek, φυσικός (physikos), natural, and φύσις (physis), nature) is the science of the natural world, which deals with the fundamental constituents of the universe, the forces they exert on one another, and the results of these forces. ... Euclid, a famous Greek mathematician known as the father of geometry, is shown here in detail from The School of Athens by Raphael. ... 1828 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... D.Sc, Sc. ... Trinomial name Homo sapiens sapiens Linnaeus, 1758 Humans, or human beings, are animals biologically classified as bipedal primates belonging to the mammalian genus Homo, in particular to its only extant species, Homo sapiens (Latin for wise man or knowing man), under the family Hominidae (the great apes). ... Human blood smear: a - erythrocytes; b - neutrophil; c - eosinophil; d - lymphocyte. ...


In 1838 he experimentally derived and in 1840 and 1846 formulated and published Poiseuille's law (or Hagen-Poiseuille law, named also after Gotthilf Heinrich Ludwig Hagen (1797-1884)). This concerns the voluminal laminar stationary flow of an incompressible uniform viscous liquid (so-called Newtonian fluid) through a cylindrical tube with constant circular cross-section. It can be successfully applied to blood flow in capillaries and veins, to air flow in lung alveoli, for the flow through a drinking straw or through a hypodermic needle. | Jöns Jakob Berzelius, discoverer of protein 1838 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1840 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1846 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... The Poiseuilles law (or the Hagen-Poiseuille law also named after Gotthilf Heinrich Ludwig Hagen (1797-1884) for his experiments in 1839) is the physical law concerning the voluminal laminar stationary flow ΦV of incompressible uniform viscous liquid (so called Newtonian fluid) through a cylindrical tube with the constant... Gotthilf Heinrich Ludwig Hagen (March 3, 1797 - February 3, 1884) was a German physicist and hydraulic engineer. ... 1797 (MDCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1884 (MDCCCLXXXIV) is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... laminar and turbulent water flow over the hull of a submarine In fluid dynamics, laminar flow is a flow regime characterized by high momentum diffusion, low momentum convection, and pressure and velocity independence from time. ... Stationary can mean: Look up stationary in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The word flow has several different meanings: In fluid mechanics, the word flow is often used to mean a complete description of the motion of a fluid. ... In fluid dynamics, potential flow, also known as irrotational flow (of incompressible fluids) is steady flow defined by the equations (zero rotation) (zero divergence = volume conservation) Equivalently, where: v is the vector fluid velocity Φ is the fluid flow potential, scalar × is curl · is divergence. ... The pitch drop experiment at the University of Queensland. ... The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ... Capillaries are the smallest of a bodys blood vessels, measuring 5-10 μm. ... In biology, a vein is a blood vessel which carries blood toward the heart. ... The lungs flank the heart and great vessels in the chest cavity. ... Detailed drawing of the alveoli from Grays Anatomy, 1918 - Schematic longitudinal section of a primary lobule of the lung (anatomical unit); r. ... Different bevels on hypodermic needles Syringe on left, hypodermic needle with attached color-coded luer lock on right. ...


Poiseuille died in Paris.


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