Clausius

American  

[klou-zee-uhs] / ˈklaʊ zi əs /

noun

1. Rudolf Julius Emanuel 1822–88, German mathematical physicist: pioneer in the field of thermodynamics.

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Clausius British  

/ ˈklauziʊs /

noun

1. Rudolf Julius (ˈruːdɔlf ˈjuːliʊs). 1822–88, German physicist and mathematician. He enunciated the second law of thermodynamics (1850) and developed the kinetic theory of gases

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Example Sentences

A later review of Carnot’s findings by Rudolf Clausius introduced a new thermodynamic property that relates the spontaneous heat flow accompanying a process to the temperature at which the process takes place.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

“In handling a musket in battle, he was the equal of any in the company,” Gerhard P Clausius, a Belvidere amateur historian, wrote in his 1958 essay The Little Soldier of the 95th.

From The Guardian • Aug. 22, 2017

Well, no, thermodynamics was developed by men like Carnot, Clausius, Maxwell, Boltzmann and Gibbs—again, academics not steam mechanics.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2015

The present condition of the molecular theory of gases, and of molecular science generally, is due almost entirely to the work of Joule, Clausius, Boltzmann, and Maxwell.

From Heroes of Science: Physicists by Garnett, William

This very important consequence certainly did not escape Clausius, since the very name of entropy, which he chose to designate this magnitude, itself signifies evolution.

From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Poincaré, Lucien