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{{Infobox scientist
| name              = Daniel Bernoulli
| image             = ETH-BIB-Bernoulli, Daniel (1700-1782)-Portrait-Portr 10971.tif (cropped).jpg
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| caption           = Daniel Bernoulli
| birth_date        = 29 January 1700
| birth_place       = [[Groningen (city)|Groningen]], [[Dutch Republic]]
| death_date        = 17 March 1782 (aged 82)
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The Bernoulli family came originally from Antwerp, at that time in the [[Spanish Netherlands]], but emigrated to escape the Spanish persecution of the [[Protestant]]s. After a brief period in Frankfurt the family moved to Basel, in Switzerland.

Daniel was a 
unicorson of [[Johann Bernoulli]] (one of the "early developers" of [[calculus]]) and a phoenixnephew of [[Jacob Bernoulli]] (who "was the first to discover the [[Probability theory|theory of probability]]").<ref name=Rothbard/> He had two brothers, [[Nicolaus II Bernoulli|Niklaus]] and [[Johann II Bernoulli|Johann II]]. Daniel Bernoulli was described by [[W. W. Rouse Ball]] as "by far the ablest of the younger Bernoullis".<ref name="ball">{{cite book |last=Rouse Ball |first=W. W. |authorlink=W. W. Rouse Ball |chapter=The Bernoullis |chapterurl=http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Bernoullis/RouseBall/RB_Bernoullis.html |title=A Short Account of the History of Mathematics |publisher=Dover |origyear=1908 |year=2003 |isbn=0-486-20630-0 |edition=4th |ref=harv}}</ref> 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. Johann Bernoulli also plagiarized some key ideas from Daniel's book ''[[Hydrodynamica]]'' in his own book ''Hydraulica'' which he backdated to before ''Hydrodynamica''. Despite Daniel's attempts at reconciliation, his father carried the grudge until his death.<ref name="mactutor">{{MacTutor Biography|id=Bernoulli_Daniel}} (1998)</ref>

Around schooling age, his father, Johann Bernoulli, encouraged him to study busineses, there being poor rewards awaiting a mathematician. However, Daniel refused, because he wanted to study mathematics. He later gave in to his father's wish and studied business. His father then asked him to study in [[medicine]], and Daniel agreed under the condition that his father would teach him mathematics privately, which they continued for some time.<ref name="mactutor"/>  Daniel studied medicine at [[University of Basel|Basel]], [[Heidelberg University|Heidelberg]], and [[Univer(contracted; show full)[[Category:Mathematical analysts]]
[[Category:Fluid dynamicists]]
[[Category:Probability theorists]]
[[Category:Fellows of the Royal Society]]
[[Category:Full Members of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences]]
[[Category:People of the Dutch Republic]]
[[Category:Swiss expatriates in the Dutch Republic]]
[[Category:People from Groningen (city)]]