Rudolf Clausius
German physicist and mathematician (1822–1888) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Clausius" redirects here. For the lunar crater, see Clausius (crater).
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 the theory of heat a truer and sounder basis. His most important paper, "On the Moving Force of Heat",[4] published in 1850, first stated the basic ideas of the second law of thermodynamics. In 1865 he introduced the concept of entropy. In 1870 he introduced the virial theorem, which applied to heat.[5]
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Born | Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius (1822-01-02)2 January 1822 |
Died | 24 August 1888(1888-08-24) (aged 66) |
Nationality | German |
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Fields | Physics |
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