Overview
Biographical movie about Julius Robert Mayer (1814-1878), a surgeon and town doctor in Heilbronn, who studied heat for many years and was the first to correctly formulate the basic principles of the theory of mechanical heat and the principle of conservation of energy. Competing Prussian scientists laugh at him, and his life is full of misunderstandings and persecution. The film tells of his fate and his long and futile struggle for recognition of the results of his scientific work.
Cast
Robert Mayer
Wilhelmine Mayer
Dr. Bohn
Closs
Fritz Mayer
Privy Councilor Justus Liebig
Court Councilor Ernst von Zeller
Dr. Landerer
Prof. Gustav Rümelin
Von Rauch
Prof. Nörrenberg
King Wilhelm of Württemberg
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