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

This unsettling idea is what defines the Boltzmann brain hypothesis.

From Science Daily • May 3, 2026

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

Gibbs and afterwards Boltzmann and Professor Planck have put forward some very interesting ideas on this subject.

From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Poincaré, Lucien