Ludwig Boltzmann
Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann was an Austrian mathematician and theoretical physicist. His greatest achievements were the development of statistical mechanics and the statistical explanation of the second law of thermodynamics. In 1877, he provided the current definition of entropy, , where Ω is the number of microstates whose energy equals the system's energy, interpreted as a measure of the statistical disorder of a system.
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Background
- Born in
- Vienna
- Educated at
- University of Vienna
- Awards
- 🏆 Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art🏆 Foreign Member of the Royal Society🏆 Honorary doctor of the University of Oxford🏆 honorary doctorate of the University of Oslo
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Josef Stefan
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Lise Meitner📖 Walther Nernst📖 Gustav Herglotz📖 Philipp Frank📖 Paul Ehrenfest
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"Philosophy gets on my nerves. If we analyze the ultimate ground of everything, then everything finally falls into nothingness. But I have decided to resume my lectures again and look the Hydra of doub…"
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1844
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Birth1906
Died
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