Rudolf Clausius

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. In 1870 he introduced the virial theorem, which applied to heat.

Notable works: Clausius theorem, Clausius–Clapeyron relation, Clausius–Mossotti relation, Clausius number, Clausius–Duhem inequality, Clausius's postulate, heat death paradox Awards: Copley Medal, Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Poncelet Prize, Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, Iron Cross, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Huygens medal, honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) Education: Frederick William University Berlin, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium

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