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Rudolf Clausius

1822 - 1888

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rudolf Clausius is the 88th most popular physicist (down from 67th in 2019), the 34th most popular biography from Poland (up from 46th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Polish Physicist.

Rudolf Clausius is most famous for his work in thermodynamics. He is credited with the formulation of the second law of thermodynamics, which states that heat cannot spontaneously flow from a colder body to a warmer one.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Rudolf Clausius ranks 88 out of 851. Before him are Luis Walter Alvarez, Victor Francis Hess, Gustaf Dalén, Allan MacLeod Cormack, Johannes Stark, and Gustav Ludwig Hertz. After him are Robert Andrews Millikan, Georg Bednorz, C. F. Powell, Otto von Guericke, Carl David Anderson, and Barry Barish.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1822, Rudolf Clausius ranks 6. Before him are Louis Pasteur, Ulysses S. Grant, Gregor Mendel, Heinrich Schliemann, and Frédéric Passy. After him are César Franck, Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, Francis Galton, Rutherford B. Hayes, Alexander Mackenzie, and Prince Napoléon Bonaparte. Among people deceased in 1888, Rudolf Clausius ranks 6. Before him are William I, German Emperor, Louisa May Alcott, John Stith Pemberton, John Bosco, and Frederick III, German Emperor. After him are Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria, Carl Zeiss, Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine, Nikolay Przhevalsky, François Achille Bazaine, and Anton Mauve.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Rudolf Clausius ranks 34 out of 1,694. Before him are Fedor von Bock (1880), Władysław Szpilman (1911), Lech Kaczyński (1949), Tadeusz Reichstein (1897), Manfred von Richthofen (1892), and Gerhart Hauptmann (1862). After him are Zygmunt Bauman (1925), Władysław IV Vasa (1595), Sigismund II Augustus (1520), Günther von Kluge (1882), Walther Nernst (1864), and Arthur Rubinstein (1887).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Poland

Among physicists born in Poland, Rudolf Clausius ranks 6. Before him are Marie Curie (1867), Albert A. Michelson (1852), Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906), Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686), and Otto Stern (1888). After him are Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898), Klaus von Klitzing (1943), Joseph Rotblat (1908), Hagen Kleinert (1941), Leopold Infeld (1898), and Friedrich Ernst Dorn (1848).

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