Ludwig Boltzmann
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Ludwig Boltzmann was an Austrian physicist and philosopher who lived from 1844 to 1906 and made fundamental contributions to understanding heat, energy, and the behavior of gases through statistical mechanics. His work laid essential groundwork for modern physics and helps explain why physical systems naturally tend toward disorder and randomness.
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- 1844-02-20
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- 1906-09-06
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- Vorlesungen über Gastheorie Volume T. 2
- Vorlesungen Über Die Principe der Mechanik; Volume 2
- Uber Die Prinzipien der Mechanik
- Vorlesungen Über Gastheorie; Volume 2
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Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann (/ˈbɔːltsˌmɑːn/ BAWLTS-mahn or /ˈboʊltsmən/ BOHLTS-muhn; German: [ˈluːtvɪç ˈeːduaʁt ˈbɔltsman]; 20 February 1844 – 5 September 1906) 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,
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