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Rudolf Clausius

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Also known as Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius, Rudolf Gottlieb

German mathematical physicist and professor (1822–1888)

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Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius was a German mathematician, theoretical physicist, and university teacher. Born in Koszalin in 1822, he studied at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg under Johann Schweigger, who also served as his doctoral advisor. He held academic positions at ETH Zurich, the University of Würzburg, the University of Bonn, and the University of Zurich. His doctoral student included Carl von Linde.

Clausius’s field of work was physics, with notable publications including *The Second Law of Thermodynamics*, *Ueber Die Bewegende Kraft der Wärme*, and *Über Den Zweiten Hauptsatz der Mechanischen Wärmetheorie*. He was a member of the Royal Society, the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Among his awards were the Copley Medal, the Poncelet Prize, the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, and the Iron Cross.

During the Franco-Prussian War, Clausius participated in the Battle of Mars-la-Tour and the Battle of Gravelotte. He died in Bonn and was buried at the Alter Friedhof Bonn.

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Works
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  • The Second Law of Thermodynamics
  • Die Mechanische Behandlung der Electricität
  • Abhandlungen Über Die Mechanische Wärmetheorie
  • Ueber Die Bewegende Kraft der Wärme
  • Über Den Zweiten Hauptsatz der Mechanischen Wärmetheorie

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  1. The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital

    · 1997 · cited 16,340x

  2. [14] Analysis of total phenols and other oxidation substrates and antioxidants by means of folin-ciocalteu reagent

    · 1999 · cited 14,071x

  3. 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure

    · 2021 · cited 12,151x

  4. World Map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification updated

    · 2006 · cited 9,910x

  5. The use of partial least squares path modeling in international marketing

    · 2009 · cited 7,147x

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Quotes

  • “The careful experiments of Joule, who developed heat... by the application of mechanical force, establish... not only the possibility of increasing the quantity of heat, but also the fact that the newly-produced heat is proportional to the work expended in its production.”
  • “[M]any facts.. lately transpired... tend to overthrow the hypothesis that heat is... a body, and to prove that it consists in a motion of the... particles of bodies. If... so... principles of mechanics may be applied to heat; this motion may be converted into work, the loss of ... being proportional to... work produced.”
  • “[T]he new theory is opposed, not to the real fundamental principle of Carnot, but to the addition "no heat is lost;" for it is... possible that in the production of work... a certain portion of heat may be consumed, and a further portion transmitted from a warm body to a cold one; and both portions may stand in a certain definite relation to the quantity of work produced.”
  • “In my memoir "On the Moving Force of Heat, &c." I have shown that the theorem of the equivalence of heat and work, and Carnot's theorem, are not mutually exclusive, but that, by a small modification... they can be brought into accordance.”
  • “Theorem of the equivalence of Heat and Work. ...Mechanical work may be transformed into heat, and conversely heat into work, the magnitude of the of the one being always proportional to that of the other.”
  • “The s... may be divided into two classes: those which the atoms of a body exert upon each other... which depend... upon the nature of the body, and those which arise from the foreign influences to which the body may be exposed. According to these two classes of forces... I have divided the work done by heat into interior and exterior work.”

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Encyclopedic overview

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.

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