List of Famous people with last name Boltzmann

Ludwig Boltzmann

Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann

First Name Ludwig

Last Name Boltzmann

Born on February 20, 1844

Died on September 5, 1906 (aged 62)

Born in Austria

Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann was an Austrian physicist and philosopher. 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, $\text{[math]}$ , interpreted as a measure of statistical disorder of a system. Max Planck named the constant $k B$ the Boltzmann constant.

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