RYAN ANTHONY G.

OLORVIDA 12 – STEM AERO

Daniel Bernoulli
LIFE
Daniel Bernoulli was born in Groningen, in the Netherlands, into
a family of distinguished mathematicians. The Bernoulli family came
originally from Antwerp, at that time in the Spanish Netherlands, but
emigrated to escape the Spanish persecution of the Protestants. After
a brief period in Frankfurt the family moved to Basel, in Switzerland.
Daniel was a son of Johann Bernoulli (one of the "early developers"
of calculus) and a nephew of Jacob Bernoulli (who "was the first to
discover the theory of probability"). He had two
brothers, Niklaus and Johann II. Daniel Bernoulli was described
by W. W. Rouse Ball as "by far the ablest of the younger
Bernoullis". He is said to have had a bad relationship with his father.
Upon both of them entering and tying for first place in a scientific
contest at the University of Paris, Johann, unable to bear the "shame"
of being compared Daniel's equal, banned Daniel from his house. 

CONTRIBUTION
He made discoveries on the motion of fluids. A significant
discovery was the connection between the speed of the flow of blood and its pressure. Daniel did an
experiment in which he set up an apparatus showing the relation between the two values. This became the
normal way of measuring blood pressure; by piercing the artery with pointed glass tubes. It was later
when the less painful method was used. However this method of Bernoulli is used to measure the airspeed
of a plane. He also wrote the ‘Specimen theoriae novae de mensura sortis’ meaning the ‘Exposition of a
New Theory on the Measurement of Risk’. He also solved a statistical problem in 1766 in which he
analyzed smallpox disease and transience to demonstrate the efficiency of vaccination. It was Bernoulli
who discovered the fluid equation. It is now used as 1/2pu to the power of 2+p=constant. Bernoulli also
made significant contributions to physics such as his formulation of the kinetic theory of gases and using
this he explained the Boyles Law. He also did a lot of work on elasticity and beams. The Bernoulli
Principle is highly useful in aerodynamics.

DEATH
Daniel Bernoulli was honored during his life for his immense contributions to mathematics and physics.
He was an elected member of the leading scientific societies of that time such as those in St. Petersburg,
Berlin, Bologna, Paris, London, Bern Zurich, Turin and Mannheim. Daniel had lost his interest in the
field mainly due to his strife with his father which had remained unresolved till his death. Daniel died on
17th March 1782 when he was 82 years of age.