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    Marian Smoluchowski (Polish: [ˈmarjan smɔluˈxɔfski]; 28 May 1872 – 5 September 1917) was a Polish physicist who worked in the territories of the Austro-Hungarian...
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  • independently by William Sutherland in 1904, Albert Einstein in 1905, and by Marian Smoluchowski in 1906 in their works on Brownian motion. The more general form...
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    position distributions, it is better known as the Smoluchowski equation (after Marian Smoluchowski), and in this context it is equivalent to the convection–diffusion...
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    statistical physics, the Smoluchowski coagulation equation is a population balance equation introduced by Marian Smoluchowski in a seminal 1916 publication...
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    first analysed in 1912 as a thought experiment by Polish physicist Marian Smoluchowski. It was popularised by American Nobel laureate physicist Richard...
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    are discontinuous. Albert Einstein (in one of his 1905 papers) and Marian Smoluchowski (1906) brought the solution of the problem to the attention of physicists...
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    The Marian Smoluchowski Medal is a Polish annual science award conferred by the Polish Physical Society (Polskie Towarzystwo Fizyczne, PTF) for contributions...
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    frequency and associated coagulation rate is the Smoluchowski coagulation equation proposed by Marian Smoluchowski in a seminal 1916 publication. In this model...
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    physicists of the 20th century alongside Marie Curie, Marian Smoluchowski, Karol Olszewski, and Marian Danysz. List of Polish physicists Timeline of Polish...
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    Foundation for Polish Science, Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize and the Marian Smoluchowski Medal of the Polish Physical Society. Wolszczan was born on 29 April...
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    and widely used theory of electrophoresis was developed in 1903 by Marian Smoluchowski: μ e = ε r ε 0 ζ η {\displaystyle \mu _{e}={\frac {\varepsilon _{r}\varepsilon...
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    politician Marian Smoluchowski (1872–1917), Polish physicist Marian Spychalski (1906–1980), Polish military leader and politician Marián Studenič (born...
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    phase transition HRS Computing – scientific simulation software Marian Smoluchowski – Polish physicist (1872–1917) Rayleigh criterion – Ability of any...
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    and Warburg (1875) published thirty years earlier and the work of Marian Smoluchowski (1898). In 1906 he described his "directly indicating vacuum gauge"...
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    notable students including Stefan Meyer, Erwin Schrödinger, and Marian Smoluchowski. Franz Serafin Exner came from an important university family in...
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  • Smoluchowski equation, after Marian Smoluchowski who described it in 1915 (not to be confused with the Einstein–Smoluchowski relation or Smoluchowski...
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    Humboldt Prize 2009 Fellow of the American Physical Society 2009 Marian Smoluchowski Medal, highest prize of the Polish Physical Society 2010 Albert-Einstein...
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    teachers included Józef Puzyna, Jan Rajewski, Stanisław Kępiński, Marian Smoluchowski, and Kazimierz Twardowski. He passed the teachers exam in 1903 and...
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    concept was inspired by the ratchet and pawl in its introductions by Marian Smoluchowski and Richard Feynman. Ratchet mechanisms are used in a wide variety...
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    examples have been discovered since. In 1908 the Polish physicist Marian Smoluchowski became the first to ascribe the phenomenon of critical opalescence...
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    calculating zeta potential from experimental data is that developed by Marian Smoluchowski in 1903. This theory was originally developed for electrophoresis;...
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    motion put forward by Albert Einstein and the Polish geophysicist Marian Smoluchowski. During this work, he developed the technique of analytical ultracentrifugation...
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    John Price Wetherill Medal (1974) Nobel Prize in Physics (1975) Marian Smoluchowski Medal (1980) Scientific career Fields Nuclear physics Institutions...
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  • The Smoluchowski factor, also known as von Smoluchowski's f-factor is related to inter-particle interactions. It is named after Marian Smoluchowski. van...
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    J. Shea, Jr., Mihalj Šilobod Bolšić, Maria Simon, Felix Somary, Marian Smoluchowski, Adalbert Stifter, Countess Stoeffel, Yemima Tchernovitz-Avidar,...
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    physics pioneer Marian Smoluchowski. In 1974, Roman Smoluchowski was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1984, the minor planet 4530 Smoluchowski was named...
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    Smoluchowski is a lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon. It lies in the part of the lunar surface that is sometimes brought into view of the...
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  • the Rockefeller Foundation (1930–31) Golden Cross of Merit (1951) Marian Smoluchowski Medal (1968) Honorary degree of the University of Windsor (1973)...
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    Astrophysics division of the American Astronomical Society 2000 – Marian Smoluchowski Medal of the Polish Physical Society 2002 – Bruce Medal of the Astronomical...
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  • explained by Albert Einstein (in one of his 1905 papers) and by Marian Smoluchowski in 1906. 1905: The Einstein Relation was revealed independently by...
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