Daniel Bernoulli, son of Johann Bernoulli, was born on February 8, 1700. He was born into a family of mathematicians. His father, brother, and uncle were all successful mathematicians. When Daniel was about five years old, his family mov ed back to their hometown of Basel, Switzerland. When Daniel was 13 he was sent to the Basel University where he studied philosophy and logic. There he obtained his baccalaureate examinations in 1715 and went on to obtain his master's degree in 1716. Duri n g the time in which Daniel was studying philosophy, his passion was set on mathamatics. He was learning calculus from his older brother Nicolaus Bernoulli. However, Daniel's father did not want him to be a mathamatician. He wanted his son to be a merchant , so he placed in an apprenticeship that Daniel strongly opposed. His father told him that there was no money in mathematics and sent him back to Basel University where he obtained his doctorate in medicine.
 

What Daniel learned about the Kinetic theory from his father, is what he applied to his medical studies. He applied mathamatical physics to medicine to obtain his doctorate in medicine. In failing to obtain an academic post at Basel, he went to Venice to study practical medicine. While in Venice, Daniel became severely ill and became unable to continue his medical persuit, but while he was there, he continued his mathamatical studies and published his first book call Mathmatical Exercises in 1724. The book was divided into four parts about the things he studied in Venice such as Probability, Differential Equations, Geomotry questions, and on the flow of water from a hole in a container. While in Venice, he also designed an hourglass to be used at sea. When he returned to Italy he learned that the had recieved the prize of the Paris Academy.

Bernoullie also came up with the principle dealing with velocity of a fluid and a pressure exerted. Bernoullie's principle states that as the velocity of a fluid increases, pressure exerted by that fluid decreases. This concept was used and used to build airplanes and other automobiles. Airplanes wings are air foils, devices designed for lift. The curvature of the top is greater than that of the bottom. Thus, as the wing travels through the air moving futher over the top; therefore, must go faster than air moving at the bottom. This principle is commonly known as hydrodynamics.

Trivia:

1. Daniel Bernoulli was born into a very competitive family of mathamaticians and scientists. In fact he was kicked out of his house at an early age for winning an award over his father.

2. He went to college at an early age 13 where he got his masters in philosophy and logic and later got his doctorate in medicine.

3. He taught physics at Basel University for 26 years.

4. He won the Grand Prize of the Paris Academy 10 times.

5. He also did good work on the theories of oscillation.

Despite many troubles and hardships faced throughout his life, Daniel Bernoulli still lives on as a great a physicist, mathamatician, and idealist.

References:

www.mathematik.ch/mathematiker/daniel_bernoulli.php

http://plus.maths.org/issue1/bern/

http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Bernoulli_Daniel.html

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/BernoulliDaniel.html

http://www.birkhauser.ch/books/math/bernoulli/daniel.html

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=80995

http://www.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/phisci/Gallery/D.bernoulli_note.html