Publication Date: 1855
Seller: Antiq. F.-D. Söhn - Medicusbooks.Com, Marburg, Germany
Signed
Ann. Phys., 94/1. - 1855, 8°, pp.59-86, 1 gefalt. Tafel, orig. grüner Broschur; mit eigenhändiger Widmung "Herrn Prof. Weber hochachtungsvoll d. Verf." und Signaturschild von F. Miescher; mit Bleistift Anmerkungen und Anstreichungen. Rare Offprint! Fick's laws of diffusion describe diffusion and were first posited by Adolf Fick in 1855 on the basis of largely experimental results. They can be used to solve for the diffusion coefficient, D. Fick's first law can be used to derive his second law which in turn is identical to the diffusion equation. Adolf Eugen Fick (1829-1901) was a German-born physician and physiologist. See- Alfred P. Fishmann & Dickinson W.Richards: Circulation of the Blood. Men and Ideas (1964), pp.121.