Josiah Willard Gibbs

Josiah Willard Gibbs

male, deceased (1903)
physicist, Mathematical analyst, second law of thermodynamics, chemical thermodynamics, physical chemistry, Ph.D.…thermodynamicist
Josiah Willard Gibbs (February 11, 1839 - April 28, 1903) was a preeminent American mathematical-engineer, theoretical physicist, and chemist noted...
Ilya Prigogine

Ilya Prigogine

male, deceased (2003)
dissipative system, thermodynamicist, complex systems, dissipative structures, scientist, Nobel Prize winner
Ilya Prigogine was a Belgian physicist and Nobel Laureate chemist noted for his work on dissipative structures, complex systems, and...
James Clerk Maxwell

James Clerk Maxwell

male, deceased (1879)
Maxwell's equations, electricity, magnetism, mathematical physics, mathematician and theoretical physicist, Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution…thermodynamicist
James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 - 5 November 1879) was a Scottish mathematician and theoretical physicist. His most significant achievement was...
Rudolf Clausius

Rudolf Clausius

male, deceased (1888)
thermodynamics, second law of thermodynamics, thermodynamicist, entropy, German native of Pomerania, University of Bonn faculty
Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius, was a German physicist and mathematician and is considered one of the central founders of the science of...
Ludwig Boltzmann

Ludwig Boltzmann

male, deceased (1906)
thermodynamicist, atomic theory, physicist, statistical thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, buried at the Zentralfriedhof
Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann (February 20, 1844 - September 5, 1906) was an Austrian physicist famous for his founding contributions in the fields of...
Max Planck

Max Planck

male, deceased (1947)
Quantum Theory physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics, physicist, quantum mechanics, quantum theory, Particle physics…thermodynamicist
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was a German physicist. He is considered to be the founder of quantum theory, and therefore one of the most important...
Enrico Fermi

Enrico Fermi

male, deceased (1954)
Nobel Prize in Physics, Italian-American, physicist, quantum mechanics, thermodynamicist, Erdős number 3
Enrico Fermi (September 29, 1901 - November 28, 1954) was an Italian physicist most noted for his work on the development of the first nuclear...
Hermann von Helmholtz

Hermann von Helmholtz

male, deceased (1894)
University of Bonn faculty, laws of nature, chemical thermodynamics, electrodynamics, physiology, philosopher…thermodynamicist
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (August 31, 1821 - September 8, 1894) was a German physician and physicist. In the words of the 1911...
Lars Onsager

Lars Onsager

male, deceased (1976)
Yale University, Yale University alumni, Theoretical physicist, engineer, Chemist, naturalized citizen of the United States…thermodynamicist
Lars Onsager (November 27, 1903 - October 5, 1976) was a Norwegian-American physical chemist and theoretical physicist, winner of the 1968 Nobel...
Lazare Carnot

Lazare Carnot

male, deceased (1823)
Deputy to the French National Convention, Count of the First French Empire, from Bourgogne, commander of the Napoleonic Wars, thermodynamicist, buried at the Panthéon
Comte Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot (May 13, 1753-August 2, 1823), the "Organizer of Victory" in the French Revolutionary Wars was a French...