Rudolf Clausius
German mathematical physicist and professor (1822–1888)
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Clausius rewrote the rules of heat and thermodynamics in the 1850s, introduced entropy in 1865, and basically laid the groundwork for how we understand energy loss. German physicist who made the invisible rules of the universe slightly less mysterious.
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Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius 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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