Rudolf Clausius
1822 – 1888 · aged 66
German mathematical physicist and professor (1822–1888)
- Born
- 2 Jan 1822 · Koszalin
- Died
- 24 Aug 1888 · Bonn
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- 2 Jan 1822BornBorn in Koszalin
- 1865AwardHonorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
- 1868AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
- 1870 – 1871WarFranco-Prussian War
- 1870WarBattle of Mars-la-Tour
- 1870WarBattle of Gravelotte
- 1870AwardHuygens medal
- 1871AwardIron Cross
- 1879AwardCopley Medal
- 1882AwardPoncelet Prize
- 1884 – 1885RoleRector
- 1885AwardBavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
- 1888AwardPour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order
- 24 Aug 1888DiedDied in Bonn
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- 1853 – 1856Crimean War
- 1857 – 1858Indian Rebellion of 1857
Biography
Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius (German pronunciation: [ˈʁuːdɔlf ˈklaʊzi̯ʊs]; 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. 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. In 1865 he introduced the concept of entropy. In 1870 he introduced the virial theorem, which applied to heat.
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