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Daniel Bernoulli
{{Short description|Swiss mathematician and physicist (1700–1782)}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name              = Daniel Bernoulli
| image             = Porträt des Daniel Bernoulli - edit1.jpg
| caption           = Portrait of Daniel Bernoulli (1720-1725)
| birth_date        = 8 February 1700
| birth_place       = [[Groningen (city)|Groningen]], [[Dutch Republic]]
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He was a contemporary and close friend of [[Leonhard Euler]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Calinger|first=Ronald|date=1996|title=Leonhard Euler: The First St. Petersburg Years (1727–1741)|url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/82068344.pdf|journal=Historia Mathematica|volume=23|issue=2|pages=121–166|doi=10.1006/hmat.1996.0015}}</ref> He went to [[Saint Petersburg|St. Petersburg]] in 1724 as professor of mathematics, but was very unhappy there
 that's why he invited Euler to be unhappy together. A temporary illness<ref name="mactutor"/> together with the censorship by the [[Russian Orthodox Church]]<ref>Calinger, Ronald (1996).p.127</ref> and disagreements over his salary gave him an excuse for leaving St. Petersburg in 1733.<ref>Calinger, Ronald (1996), pp.127–128</ref> He returned to the [[University of Basel]], where he successively held the chairs of [[medicine]], [[metaphysics]], and [[natural philosophy]] until his death.<ref name="eb"/&g(contracted; show full)[[Category:Mathematical analysts]]
[[Category:Fluid dynamicists]]
[[Category:Probability theorists]]
[[Category:Fellows of the Royal Society]]
[[Category:Full members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences]]
[[Category:Swiss expatriates in the Dutch Republic]]
[[Category:Scientists from Groningen (city)]]
[[Category:Swiss expatriates in Germany]]