Rudolf Clausius
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Rudolf Clausius was a German mathematical physicist and professor (1822–1888) who made fundamental contributions to thermodynamics, the science of heat and energy. His work, particularly the development of the concept of entropy, helped establish the laws of thermodynamics and shaped modern physics and engineering.
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- 1822-01-02
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- 1888-08-24
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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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1822 births1888 deaths19th-century German physicistsAcademic staff of ETH ZurichAcademic staff of the University of BonnAcademic staff of the University of WürzburgForeign associates of the National Academy of SciencesForeign members of the Royal SocietyGerman fellows of the Royal SocietyGerman fluid dynamicistsGerman military personnel of the Franco-Prussian War