BIOGRAPHY OF LUDWIG BOLTZMANN
( 1844 - 1906 )
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born Feb. 20, 1844, Vienna , Austria.
died Sept. 5, 1906, Duino , Italy.
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BIOGRAPHY OF LUDWIG BOLTZMANN
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Physicist whose greatest achievement was in the development of statistical mechanics, which explains and predicts
how the properties of atoms (such as mass, charge, and structure)
determine the visible properties of matter (such as viscosity, thermal conductivity, and diffusion).
His greatest achievement is the famous formula for the ENTROPY:
There are a few places where the biography of LUDWIG BOLTZMANN can be found.
Wikipedia electronic Encyclopedia(http://en.wikipedia.org/) , an article LUDWIG BOLTZMANN.
History of Mathematics WEB-page
(http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/%7Ehistory/Mathematicians/Boltzmann.html/).
The LUDWIG BOLTZMANN page is included.
The nice POSTER and the
References can be found too.
Short Biography of LUDWIG BOLTZMANN can be found at Encyclopedia Britannica: : see article LUDWIG BOLTZMANN
Short Biography of LUDWIG BOLTZMANN can be found at WOLFRAM Database: : see article LUDWIG BOLTZMANN
Biography of LUDWIG BOLTZMANN and many additional materials, such as his Poster can be found at the address: (http://www.shsu.edu/~icc_cmf/bio/boltzman.html). This site includes a lot of Biographies of Scientists.
An interesting essay "Boltzmann's Work in Statistical Physics" can be found in the STANFORD Encyclopedia.
Bibliography of LUDWIG BOLTZMANN consists of 146 papers and 27 books. .
There are many publications of his works, between them:
1.The Kinetic Theory of Gases. ( An Anthology of Classical Papers with Historical Commentary by S. G. Brush),
ed. N. S. Hall
(Imperial Science Press, London, 2003).
2. Lectures on Gas Theory (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1964).