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    Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann (/ˈbɒltsmən/, US: /ˈboʊl-, ˈbɔːl-/; German: [ˈluːtvɪk ˈbɔltsman]; 20 February 1844 – 5 September 1906) was an Austrian theoretical...
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    relationship, and Ludwig Boltzmann who derived the law theoretically. For an ideal absorber/emitter or black body, the Stefan–Boltzmann law states that...
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    entire bodies or even galaxies. The idea is named after the physicist Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906) who published a hypothesis in 1896, prior to the Big Bang...
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    {\varepsilon _{j}-\varepsilon _{i}}{kT}}\right)} The Boltzmann distribution is named after Ludwig Boltzmann who first formulated it in 1868 during his studies...
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    is named after the Austrian scientist Ludwig Boltzmann. As part of the 2019 revision of the SI, the Boltzmann constant is one of the seven "defining...
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    Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution, or Maxwell(ian) distribution, is a particular probability distribution named after James Clerk Maxwell and Ludwig Boltzmann....
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    system can be arranged. The equation was originally formulated by Ludwig Boltzmann between 1872 and 1875, but later put into its current form by Max Planck...
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    thermodynamic system not in a state of equilibrium; it was devised by Ludwig Boltzmann in 1872. The classic example of such a system is a fluid with temperature...
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    A Boltzmann machine (also called Sherrington–Kirkpatrick model with external field or stochastic Ising model), named after Ludwig Boltzmann, is a spin-glass...
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  • statistical entropy perspective was introduced in 1870 by Austrian physicist Ludwig Boltzmann, who established a new field of physics that provided the descriptive...
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  • In classical statistical mechanics, the H-theorem, introduced by Ludwig Boltzmann in 1872, describes the tendency of the quantity H (defined below) to...
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    In statistical mechanics, Maxwell–Boltzmann statistics describes the distribution of classical material particles over various energy states in thermal...
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  • statistical mechanics; it is named after the celebrated physicist Ludwig Boltzmann. The Boltzmann Medal is awarded once every three years by the Commission on...
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  • The Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft (LBG) is an Austrian network of specialized research institutes that are not part of a university. It was founded in...
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    scientists such as Ludwig Boltzmann, Josiah Willard Gibbs, and James Clerk Maxwell gave entropy a statistical basis. In 1877, Boltzmann visualized a probabilistic...
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  • metaphysics, and practices of established religions. Boltzmann, Ludwig; Blackmore, John T. (1995). Ludwig Boltzmann: His Later Life and Philosophy, 1900–1906. The...
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  • philosopher Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann (20 February 1844 – 5 September 1906). Boltzmann codes Boltzmann's entropy formula Boltzmann's principle Boltzmann's H-theorem...
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    Function?" (1904) Original: "Was ist eine Funktion?", in Festschrift Ludwig Boltzmann gewidmet zum sechzigsten Geburtstage, 20 February 1904, S. Meyer (ed...
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    temperature at which the transfer occurs. In the years to follow, Ludwig Boltzmann translated these 'alterations of arrangement' into a probabilistic...
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  • The Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights (German: Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Menschenrechte, BIM) is a Vienna-based research institute affiliated...
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  • of statistical mechanics is generally credited to three physicists: Ludwig Boltzmann, who developed the fundamental interpretation of entropy in terms of...
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  • The Ludwig Boltzmann Prize is awarded by the Austrian Physical Society and honors outstanding achievements in theoretical physics. It is named after the...
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    grey-body emissions by Stefan's student Ludwig Boltzmann and hence is known as Stefan–Boltzmann law. Boltzmann treated a heat engine with light as a working...
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  • Look up Boltzmann in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ludwig Boltzmann was an Austrian physicist famous for his founding contributions in the fields of...
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  • entropy in the statistical thermodynamics formulation established by Ludwig Boltzmann and J. Willard Gibbs in the 1870s are similar to the information entropy...
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    but took courses at the University of Vienna, in particular from Ludwig Boltzmann on his kinetic theory of thermodynamics. These lectures had a profound...
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    Ludwig Binswanger, Swiss psychiatrist Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist Ludwig Feuerbach (1804–1872), German anthropologist and philosopher Ludwig...
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    the specific heat of diamond was sensible to temperature. In 1877, Ludwig Boltzmann showed that the constant value of Dulong–Petit law could be explained...
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    of its temperature and stated the Stefan–Boltzmann law. The law was derived theoretically by Ludwig Boltzmann in 1884. In 1900 Max Planck found an accurate...
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  • system. The origins of ergodicity lie in statistical physics, where Ludwig Boltzmann formulated the ergodic hypothesis. Ergodicity occurs in broad settings...
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