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In 1870 Clausius organized an ambulance corps in the Franco-Prussian War. He was wounded in battle, leaving him with a lasting disability. He was awarded the Iron Cross for his services. His wife, Adelheid Rimpau died in 1875, leaving him to raise their six children. In 1886, he married Sophie Sack, and then had another child.
William John Macquorn Rankine FRSE FRS (/ ˈ r æ ŋ k ɪ n /; 5 July 1820 – 24 December 1872) was a Scottish mathematician and physicist. He was a founding contributor, with Rudolf Clausius and William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), to the science of thermodynamics , particularly focusing on its First Law.
Date: Artwork prior or equal 1889: Source: Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie, Band 21, von 1896: Author: Picture taken by Theo Schafgans (1859–1907), Bonn; heliogravüre by Meisenbach, Riffarth & Co. Berlin.
Josiah Willard Gibbs Born (1839-02-11) February 11, 1839 New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. Died April 28, 1903 (1903-04-28) (aged 64) New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. Nationality American Alma mater Yale College (BA, PhD) Known for List Statistical mechanics Chemical thermodynamics Chemical potential Cross product Dyadics Exergy Principle of maximum work Phase rule Phase space Physical optics Physics ...
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William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) amalgamated all of these laws into the laws of thermodynamics, which aided in the rapid development of explanations of chemical processes using the concept of energy by Rudolf Clausius, Josiah Willard Gibbs and Walther Nernst.
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William John Macquorn Rankine (1820–1872) Pafnuty Chebyshev (1821–1894) Hermann von Helmholtz‡† (1821–1894) Johann Josef Loschmidt (1821–1895) August Krönig (1822–1879) Rudolf Clausius (1822–1888) August Davidov (1823–1885) Gustav Kirchhoff (1824–1887) Bernhard Riemann (1826–1866) Ludvig Lorenz (1829–1891) James Clerk ...