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Ludwig Boltzmann

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  • Avogadro dines in this exclusive club with Max Planck and Ludwig Boltzmann and perhaps, to make a foursome, the science-fiction writer Douglas Adams, for his "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," where the number 42 is a supercomputer's mysterious answer for the meaning of it all.

    How Many Friends Can Your Brain Hold? Matt Ridley 2011

  • Students who had studied there before me include the great physicist Ludwig Boltzmann, the logician Kurt Gödel, and the father of genetics, Gregor Mendel.

    SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

  • One small example, the Austrian physicist Ludwig Boltzmann played a heroic role in the development of statistical mechanics in the 19th century, but he wasn't the man who discovered the Second Law of Thermodynamics, and his contributions, contrary to Mr. Clegg's assertion, were very much appreciated by his contemporaries.

    Unwinding Time Sean Carroll 2011

  • From 1901 – 1906 she studied with experimentalist Anton Lampa, Stefan Meyer and, later, the famous theoretician Ludwig Boltzmann.

    Lise Meitner. 2009

  • Ludwig Boltzmann (1844-1906), an Austrian physicist famous for the invention of statistical mechanics.

    Boltzmann, Ludwig 2009

  • In this documentary, David Malone looks at four brilliant mathematicians - Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing - whose genius has profoundly affected us, but which tragically drove them insane and eventually led to them all committing suicide.

    Dangerous Knowledge William Harryman 2007

  • The example of the Austrian Ludwig Boltzmann and the connections he discovered with heat and thermodynamics and the notion of entropy that went against the social climate rather then logic whilst questioning Newtonian mechanics.

    Some Ice Cores in NAS – Antarctic « Climate Audit 2006

  • Ludwig Boltzmann was the first to note that entropy is a measure of molecular disorder and he concluded that increasing entropy implied increasing disorder

    To explain ID, *don't* look up the homologies - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • Lindley came to write the book not because he was long fond of Lord Kelvin, but because while he was writing a book about Ludwig Boltzmann, he encountered the young Kelvin, William Thompson, a brilliant scientist, highly regarded by his contemporaries.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2005

  • Ludwig Boltzmann: Bibliographie, an extensive bibliography of Boltzmann's articles maintained by the Universitätsbibliotek at the Universität Heidelberg

    Boltzmann's Work in Statistical Physics Uffink, Jos 2004

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