# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rudolf-clausius
# Generated: 2026-08-31T13:54:12.654Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rudolf-clausius"
name: "Rudolf Clausius"
slug: "rudolf-clausius"
description: "He gave entropy its name and the second law of thermodynamics its first clear statement — the conceptual architecture that governs every engine, every star, every system sliding toward disorder."
tagline: "German mathematical physicist and professor (1822–1888)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Clausius.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1822-01-02"
deathDate: "1888-08-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           63.31
  momentum:             17.09145427286357
  historical:           24.223632
  currentAttention:     9.755193831655603
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 213
tags:
  - name: "Scientists"
    slug: "scientists"
  - name: "Academic"
    slug: "academic"
  - name: "Mathematics"
    slug: "mathematics"
  - name: "Physics"
    slug: "physics"
  - name: "19th Century"
    slug: "19th-century"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30693"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Clausius"
    title: "Wikipedia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Rudolf%20Clausius"
    title: "Pantheon 2.0"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81_%D9%83%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "رودولف كلاوزيوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%84%D9%81_%DA%A9%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B2%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "رودلف کلاوزیوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Klauzius"
    title: "Rudolf Klauzius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bat_smg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Clausius"
    title: "Rudolf Clausius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%84_%D0%AE%D0%BB%D1%96%D1%83%D1%81_%D0%AD%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%83%D1%8D%D0%BB%D1%8C_%D0%9A%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%9E%D0%B7%D1%96%D1%83%D1%81"
    title: "Рудольф Юліус Эмануэль Клаўзіус"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%84_%D0%9A%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%83%D1%81"
    title: "Рудолф Клаузиус"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%AB_%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%B8"
    title: "রুডলফ ক্লাউজিউস"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Clausius"
    title: "Rudolf Clausius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Clausius"
    title: "Rudolf Clausius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Clausius"
    title: "Rudolf Clausius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Clausius"
    title: "Rudolf Clausius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Clausius"
    title: "Rudolf Clausius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A1%CE%BF%CF%8D%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%BF%CE%BB%CF%86_%CE%9A%CE%BB%CE%B1%CE%BF%CF%8D%CE%B6%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%85%CF%82"
    title: "Ρούντολφ Κλαούζιους"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Clausius"
    title: "Rudolf Clausius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Clausius"
    title: "Rudolf Clausius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Clausius"
    title: "Rudolf Clausius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Clausius"
    title: "Rudolf Clausius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%84%D9%81_%DA%A9%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B2%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "رودلف کلاوزیوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Clausius"
    title: "Rudolf Clausius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Clausius"
    title: "Rudolf Clausius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%93%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%A3_%D7%A7%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%95%D7%96%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A1"
    title: "רודולף קלאוזיוס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%A1%E0%A5%89%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AB_%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%B8"
    title: "रुडॉल्फ क्लासिअस"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rudolf_Klauzius"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ca.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rudolf_Clausius"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rudolf_Clausius"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rudolf_Clausius"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://sr.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%84_%D0%9A%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%98%D1%83%D1%81"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius was born in Prussia on 2 January 1822, trained as a physicist and mathematician, and spent his career rewriting the theory of heat from principle up. In 1850 he published "On the Moving Force of Heat," which first articulated the basic ideas of what became the second law of thermodynamics, rescuing and refining Sadi Carnot's earlier work on the Carnot cycle. Fifteen years later, in 1865, he coined the term entropy to describe the measure of disorder that can never decrease in a closed system. In 1870 he introduced the virial theorem, extending his methods to the behavior of heat in dynamic systems. He died on 24 August 1888, having laid the conceptual foundation for much of modern physics.