Johann Samuel Koenig
1712–57
German mathematician and physicist. Studied under Johann Bernoulli I and his son Daniel, but entered legal practice in Bern in 1737 after failing to obtain a professorship in mathematics. Wrote extensively on the shape of the earth, bee cells, and other geometrical subjects. Formulated several physical laws and a controversial critique of Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis’s principle of least action.
Source
DSB.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
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