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Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius ( German pronunciation: [ˈʁuːdɔlf ˈklaʊ̯zi̯ʊs]; [1] [2] 2 January 1822 – 24 August 1888) was a German physicist and mathematician and is considered one of the central founding fathers of the science of thermodynamics. [3] By his restatement of Sadi Carnot 's principle known as the Carnot cycle, he gave ...
Apr 1, 2013 · Rudolph Clausius (1822–1888) played an important role in advancing the theory of heat during the 19th century. His contributions concerned the development of the two fundamental principles of heat as well as the microscopic approach of kinetic theory where he introduced the new concept of the mean free path. He always strictly separated these ...
- Stefan L. Wolff
- 2013
The secondary literature on Clausius’ life is sparse. 2 The fact is that we know little of Clausius and his inner thought process, especially as compared against what we know of Thomson’s rather public life inside the highly interactive physics of Scotland. But with this downside came an upside, for it was likely just this solitude that afforded Clausius the opportunity to delve deep into ...
Dec 11, 2022 · For example, Robert Bunsen (1811–1899) wrote in an evaluation of Clausius on the occasion of a position to be filled in Heidelberg in 1854—it was actually offered to Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (1824–1887): “His works up to this point are of a purely mathematical-physical [emphasis added] nature, supported by the observations of others.” Nevertheless, Clausius was very well familiar with ...
Clausius was appointed professor of physics at the Artillery and Engineering School at Berlin in 1850, the same year in which he presented a paper stating the second law of thermodynamics in the well-known form: “Heat cannot of itself pass from a colder to a hotter body.”. He applied his results to an exhaustive development of the theory of ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Rudolf Clausius developed the first modern version of the kinetic theory of gases. His derivation provided the means to predict the heat capacity of a monatomic gas and to quantify the mean free path distance traveled by atoms between collisions.
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Jan 2, 2020 · Rudolf Clausius (1822 – 1888) On January 2, 1822, German physicist and mathematician Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius was born. He is considered one of the central founders of the science of thermodynamics, who introduced the concept of entropy in 1865. “If for the entire universe we conceive the same magnitude to be determined, consistently ...
