Category
page 1Thermodynamicists
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
Erwin Schrödinger
Austrian physicist (1887–1961)
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
James Prescott Joule
English physicist and brewer (1818–1889)
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)
Wolfgang Pauli
physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)
Johannes Diderik van der Waals
Dutch physicist (1837–1923)
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
Hermann von Helmholtz
German physicist and physiologist (1821-1894)
Satyendra Nath Bose
Indian Bengali physicist and polymath (1894–1974)
Walther Nernst
German physical chemist and physicist (1864–1941)
Nicolas Carnot
French physicist, the "father of thermodynamics" (1796–1832)
Rudolf Clausius
German mathematical physicist and professor (1822–1888)
Percy Williams Bridgman
American physicist
Ilya Prigogine
Russian-Belgian physical chemist (1917–2003)
Josiah Willard Gibbs
American scientist (1839–1903)
Lars Onsager
American physical chemist and theoretical physicist (1903-1976)
William John Macquorn Rankine
civil engineer (1820–1872)
Gilbert N. Lewis
American physical chemist
Joseph Black
Scottish physicist and chemist (1728–1799)
Lazare Carnot
French political, engineering and mathematical figure (1753–1823)
Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron
French physicist (1799-1864)
Robert Mayer
German physicist (1814-1878)
Benjamin Thompson
American-born British physicist and inventor (1753–1814)
Pierre Duhem
French physicist and historian of science (1861-1916)
Henri Victor Regnault
French physicist (1810–1878)
Konstantinos Carathéodory
Greek mathematician (1873-1950)
Jacob Bekenstein
Mexican-Israeli physicist
Hugh Everett III
US physicist and discoverer of the relative-state interpretation of quantum mechanics
Peter Guthrie Tait
Scottish mathematical physicist (1831–1901)
Théophile de Donder
Belgian physicist (1872–1957)
Alexis Thérèse Petit
French physicist (1791–1820)
Richard Mollier
German physicist (1863–1935)
Gustav Zeuner
German engineer; Director of the School of Mines, Freiberg, Saxony (1828–1907)
Joel Lebowitz
American mathematical physicist
Merle Randall
American physical chemist (1888–1950)
Herbert Callen
American physicist (1919–1993)
George N. Hatsopoulos
American mechanical engineer
Victor Gustave Robin
French mathematician (1855–1897)
Athanase Dupré
French mathematician and physicist (1808–1869)
Howard Wilson Emmons
professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering at Harvard University (1912-1998)
Morton Gurtin
American mechanical engineer
Edward A. Guggenheim
British thermodynamicist
Frederick Rossini
American chemist (1899–1990)
Otto Redlich
American chemical engineer (1896-1978)
František Wald
Czech chemist and university educator (1861–1930)
Bernard H. Lavenda
award winning Professor of Physical Chemistry, currently at the University of Camerino in Italy
Adrian Bejan
American thermodynamicist
François Massieu
French engineer and mathematician (1832-1896)