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Ludwig Boltzmann

(1844–1906) Physicist

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Ludwig Boltzmann was a physicist, best known for Vorlesungen Ueber Die Principe Der Mechanik.

Quick Facts About Ludwig Boltzmann

Born
February 20, 1844
Died
September 5, 1906
Profession
Physicist
Notable works
Vorlesungen Ueber Die Principe Der Mechanik

About Ludwig Boltzmann

Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann 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, , where Ω is the number of microstates whose energy equals the system's energy, interpreted as a measure of the statistical disorder of a system. Max Planck named the constant kB the Boltzmann constant.

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