Ludwig Boltzmann

Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann was an Austrian–Hungarian physicist, chemist, mathematician, and university teacher. He worked at the University of Vienna, Leipzig University, University of Graz, and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. His field of work was theoretical physics. He was educated at the University of Vienna, where his doctoral advisor was Josef Stefan.

Boltzmann was a member of the Royal Society, the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics. His notable works include *Modelisation*, *Vorlesungen über Gastheorie Volume T. 2*, *Vorlesungen Über Die Principe der Mechanik; Volume 2*, *Uber Die Prinzipien der Mechanik*, and *Vorlesungen Über Gastheorie; Volume 2*.

He died by suicide in Duino in 1906. He is buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery. His doctoral students included Paul Ehrenfest, Lise Meitner, Gustav Herglotz, Philipp Frank, Marian Smoluchowski, and Friedrich Hasenöhrl. He is described in the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary and the Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary.