Boltzmann, Ludwig (1844 - 1906)

Austrian physicist and philosopher

The life work of Boltzmann was the reorganization of thermodynamics. He established with James Clerk Maxwell the Statistical Mechanics (Boltzmann statistics) and interpreted the entropy as a microscopic size.
Boltzmann was a supporter of the atomistic idea. He had many colleagues of his time as opponents, among them Wilhelm Ostwald and Max Planck. However, Planck took on his Planck's law back to the ideas of Boltzmann. The Stefan-Boltzmann law (the radiated power is proportional to the 4th power of the absolute temperature) is a special case of the Planck law.

variant spelling:
Boltzmann, Ludwig

Curriculum vitae

* 20.02.1844	Wien	born
† 06.09.1906	Duino bei Triest	died

Collections

Industrialisation, ca. 1850-1920

Literature

	Vorlesungen ueber die Principe der Mechanik Author: Buchholz, Hugo Ferdinand (Ed.); Boltzmann, Ludwig Published: 1897 -
	Vorlesungen ueber die Principe der Mechanik: Enthaltend die Principe, bei denen nicht Ausdrücke nach der Zeit integrirt werden, welche Variationen der Coordinaten oder ihrer Ableitungen nach der Zeit enthalten Author: Boltzmann, Ludwig Published: 1897
	Vorlesungen ueber die Principe der Mechanik: Enthaltend: die Wirkungsprinzipe, die Lagrangeschen Gleichungen und deren Anwendungen Author: Boltzmann, Ludwig Published: 1904
	Vorlesungen ueber die Principe der Mechanik: Elastizitätstheorie und Hydromechanik Author: Buchholz, Hugo Ferdinand (Ed.); Boltzmann, Ludwig Published: 1920

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