Boltzmann

American  

[bawlts-mahn, bohlts-muhn] / ˈbɔltsˌmɑn, ˈboʊlts mən /

noun

1. Ludwig 1844–1906, Austrian physicist.

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Boltzmann British  

/ ˈbɔltsman /

noun

1. Ludwig (ˈluːtvɪç). 1844–1906, Austrian physicist. He established the principle of the equipartition of energy and developed the kinetic theory of gases with J. C. Maxwell

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Boltzmann Scientific  

/ bôlts′män′ /

1. Austrian physicist who developed statistical mechanics, the branch of physics that explains how the properties of atoms (such as mass and structure) determine the visible properties of matter (such as viscosity and heat conduction). Through his investigations of thermodynamics, Boltzmann developed numerous theories about the laws governing atomic motion and energy.

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Example Sentences

His approach relies on concepts of thermodynamics that were first articulated by Ludwig Boltzmann in the 19th century but only became practical to apply in the 1950s with the arrival of the first computers.

From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2024

One advocate of this view, called theoretical pluralism, was 19th-century physicist Ludwig Boltzmann.

From Scientific American • Sep. 14, 2019

Rovelli gives good descriptions of the classical physics of Newton and Ludwig Boltzmann, and of modern physics through the lenses of Einstein and quantum mechanics.

From Nature • Apr. 15, 2018

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

For a more detailed study of diffusion in general the following papers may be consulted:—L. Boltzmann, “Zur Integration der Diffusionsgleichung,” Sitzung. der k. bayer.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various