biography
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Clausius, Rudolf (Julius Emanuel)
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pronunciation:
[klowzius]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1822–88)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Koszalin, NW Poland (formerly Köslin, Germany). He studied at Berlin, and in 1869 became professor of natural philosophy at Bonn. He worked on optics and electricity, formulated the second law of thermodynamics, and was influential in establishing thermodynamics as a science. |
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