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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 statistica…
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Born 20 February 1844 · Died 5 September 1906 · Q84296
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Nature: Ludwig Boltzmann Institutes (LBG)
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2022· 1 entry
Nature: Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Lung Vascular Research
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1906· 1 entry
Died 1906-09-05.
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1905· 1 entry
Gave an invited course of lectures in the summer session at the University of California, Berkeley, which he described in a popular essay A German professor's trip to El Dorado
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1903· 2 entries
Boltzmann started teaching the philosophy course (which had previously been given by Mach)
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Boltzmann, together with Gustav von Escherich and Emil Müller, founded the Austrian Mathematical Society
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1902· 1 entry
Boltzmann returned to Vienna
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1900· 1 entry
Boltzmann went to Leipzig University, on the invitation of Wilhelm Ostwald
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1899· 2 entries
Awarded Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1899).
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Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1899).
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1897· 1 entry
“On the question of the objective existence of processes in inanimate nature”
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1896· 1 entry
Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1896).
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1894· 1 entry
Boltzmann succeeded his teacher Joseph Stefan as Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Vienna
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1888· 1 entry
And a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1899
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1887· 1 entry
Career landmark: rector (1887–1888).
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1885· 1 entry
Became a member of the Imperial Austrian Academy of Sciences and in 1887 he became the President of the University of Graz
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1877· 2 entries
That the energy levels of a physical system could be discrete, although Boltzmann used this as a mathematical device with no physical meaning
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Provided the current definition of entropy,
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1873· 1 entry
Boltzmann joined the University of Vienna as Professor of Mathematics and there he stayed until 1876
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1872· 1 entry
Long before women were admitted to Austrian universities, he met Henriette von Aigentler, an aspiring teacher of mathematics and physics in Graz
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1869· 2 entries
At age 25, thanks to a letter of recommendation written by Josef Stefan, Boltzmann was appointed full Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Graz in the province of Styria
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Spent several months in Heidelberg working with Robert Bunsen and Leo Königsberger and in 1871 with Gustav Kirchhoff and Hermann von Helmholtz in Berlin
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1866· 1 entry
Studied at University of Vienna, Doctor (1863–1866).
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1863· 1 entry
Boltzmann studied mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna
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1844· 1 entry
Born 1844-02-20.
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1808· 1 entry
And James Clerk Maxwell in Scotland and Josiah Willard Gibbs in the United States, shared Boltzmann's belief in atoms and molecules, but much of the physics establishment did not share this belief until decades later
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