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

He was followed by M. Br�cke, whose experiments prove that the suspended particles may be so small that the reasoning of M. Clausius may not apply to them.

From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by Tyndall, John

Clausius and Lord Kelvin have drawn from these considerations certain well-known consequences on the evolution of the Universe.

From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Poincaré, Lucien