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Feb 13, 2018 · How can a lifetime’s achievement so fundamental like the one of physicist Ludwig Boltzmann end in a tragic suicide during a holiday in Italy?
Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann ( German pronunciation: [ˈluːtvɪç ˈbɔlt͡sman]; 20 February 1844 – 5 September 1906) was an Austrian physicist and philosopher. His greatest achievements were the development of statistical mechanics, and the statistical explanation of the second law of thermodynamics.
Feb 20, 2012 · Depressed and in bad health, Boltzmann committed suicide just before experiment verified his work. On holiday with his wife and daughter at the Bay of Duino near Trieste, he hanged himself while his wife and daughter were swimming.
Apr 18, 2024 · Stefan-Boltzmann law. (Show more) Ludwig Boltzmann (born February 20, 1844, Vienna, Austria—died September 5, 1906, Duino, Italy) was a physicist whose greatest achievement was in the development of statistical mechanics, which explains and predicts how the properties of atoms (such as mass, charge, and structure) determine the visible ...
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Nov 17, 2004 · Sometimes, his suicide in 1906 is attributed to the injustice he thus suffered, The fact that his death occurred just at the dawn of the definitive victory of the atomic view in the works of Einstein, Smoluchowski, Perrin et al. adds a further touch of drama to this picture.
Apr 9, 1999 · It was a tragedy that Boltzmann did not live to experience the glory of his pioneering ideas, for he committed suicide during one such depression in September 1906. Carlo Cercignani starts his book with a short biography of Boltzmann, and includes many original quotations from him and his contemporaries.
The profound influences upon young Ludwig were the physicist Ludwig Boltzmann who committed suicide in 1906 and Otto Weininger, author of Sex and Character, who committed suicide in 1903. For the most part, these suicides were committed before Ludwig had turned 15.
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