List of Famous people with last name Clausius

Rudolf Clausius

Rudolf Gottlieb
First Name Rudolf
Last Name Clausius
Born on January 2, 1822
Died on August 24, 1888 (aged 66)

Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius was a German physicist and mathematician and is considered one of the central founders 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 as a ratio of heat to temperature. In 1870 he introduced the virial theorem which applied to heat.

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