Rudolf Clausius
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Rudolf Clausius | |
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Born | 2 January 1822 Köslin, Pomerania |
Died | 24 August 1888 (aged 66) Bonn |
Alma mater | University of Berlin University of Halle |
Known for | Kinetic theory, entropy |
Religion | Evangelist |
Spouse(s) | Adelheid Rimpham (m. 1859, d. 1875) Sophie Stack (m. 1886) |
Children | three sons, four daughters |
Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius (2 January 1822 – 24 August 1888) was a German physicist.[1][2]
Biography
Rudolf Clausius was born in 1822 in Köslin (now Koszalin, West Pomerania, Poland) in the Province of Pomerania (part of the Kingdom of Prussia) to Carl Ernst Gottlieb (1781–1855), a theologian and schoolteacher, and Charlotte Wilhelmine Dienemann (1793–1840): he was the sixth of eighteen children.[2]
Notes and references
Notes
References
- ↑ Clausius, Rudolf. In Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie; Duncker & Humblot: Leipzig, 1910; Vol. 55, pp 720–29, <http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/>.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Clausius Rudolf Julius Emanuel. In Neue Deutsche Biographie; Duncker & Humblot: Berlin, 1957; Vol. 3, pp 276–78, <http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/>.
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