Rudolf Clausius
Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius was a German physicist and mathematician and is considered one of the central founding fathers of the science of thermodynamics. By his restatement of Sadi Carnot's principle known as the Carnot cycle, he gave the theory of heat a truer and sounder basis. His most important paper, "On the Moving Force of Heat", published in 1850, first stated the basic ideas of the second law of thermodynamics.
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- Born in
- Koszalin
- Educated at
- Martin Luther University Halle-WittenbergFrederick William University BerlinFriedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium
- Awards
- 🏆 Copley Medal🏆 Iron Cross🏆 Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art🏆 Poncelet Prize🏆 Foreign Member of the Royal Society
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Johann Schweigger
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Carl von Linde
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1822
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