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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann was born in Austria on 20 February 1844, trained as a mathematician and theoretical physicist, and spent his career chasing a problem most of his peers thought was pointless: could the behavior of invisible, bouncing particles explain the laws of heat? In 1877 he cracked it, defining entropy as S = kB ln Ω — a measure of how many microscopic arrangements correspond to what we observe, linking statistical disorder to thermodynamic certainty. The work founded statistical mechanics, one of the pillars of modern physics, and gave scientists a way to derive properties like heat capacity from first principles rather than just measuring and tabulating them. Max Planck later named the constant in the equation after him. Boltzmann died on 5 September 1906, having shown that the macroscopic world — temperature, pressure, the irreversible slide toward equilibrium — was nothing more than the average hum of atoms doing what atoms do.