Johann Heinrich Lambert

Johann Heinrich Lambert

Johann Heinrich Lambert (August 26, 1728 - September 25 1777), was a mathematician, physicist and astronomer. He was born in Mülhausen (now Mulhouse, Alsace, France) and died in Berlin, Prussia (today Germany).

See also:

• Beer-Lambert law (Lambert-Beer law, Beer-Lambert-Bouguer law)
• lambert
• Lambert's cosine law
• Lambert's projection
• Lambert's trinomial equation
• Lambert's W function
• &pi

• University of St Andrews' page: http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Lambert.html