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While the solitary were was struggling for recognition, other interesting events related to solitons were happening. One occured in hydrodynamics, another in physiology. Although the first of the discoveries was theoretical and the second experimental, the discoverer of both was one person — Hermann Helmholtz.
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Filippov, A.T. (2010). Relatives of the Soliton. In: The Versatile Soliton. Modern Birkhäuser Classics. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4974-6_3
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