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Josef Stefan
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Carinthian Slovene physicist, mathematician and poet (1835-1893)
Josef Stefan was a 19th-century physicist and mathematician from Carinthia (in present-day Austria) who made important contributions to the study of heat and radiation. He is best known for discovering the Stefan-Boltzmann law, which describes how much heat objects emit based on their temperature—a fundamental principle still used today in physics and engineering.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Josef
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Austrian Empire
- Place of death
- Vienna
- Occupation
- professor
- Position held
- rector
- Employer
- University of Vienna
- Languages spoken
- German
- Native language
- Slovene
- Award
- Lieben Prize
- Doctoral advisor
- Andreas von Ettingshausen
- Doctoral student
- Ludwig Boltzmann
- Field of work
- physics
- Image
- Jozef Stefan.jpg
- Residence
- Austria
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- Josef Stefan
- date of birth
- 1835-03-24
- date of death
- 1893-01-07
- name in native language
- Jožef Stefan
- student
- Sigmund Freud
- Commons gallery
- Jožef Stefan
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- place of burial
- Vienna Central Cemetery
- birth name
- Josef Stefan
- pseudonym
- J. A. Spleteni
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Encyclopedic overview
Josef Stefan (Slovene: Jožef Štefan; 24 March 1835 – 7 January 1893) was a Carinthian Slovene physicist, mathematician, and poet of the Austrian Empire.
Life and work
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