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Josef Stefan ( Slovene: Jožef Štefan; 24 March 1835 – 7 January 1893) [1] was a Carinthian Slovene physicist, mathematician, and poet of the Austrian Empire . Life and work. Stefan was born in the village of St. Peter (Slovene: Sveti Peter) on the outskirts of Klagenfurt) to Aleš (Aleksander) Stefan (1805-1872) and Marija Startinik (1815-1863).
- University of Vienna
- Physicist
- Lieben Prize (1865)
Josef Stefan (born March 24, 1835, St. Peter, Austria—died January 7, 1893, Vienna) Austrian physicist who in 1879 formulated a law which states that the radiant energy of a blackbody —a theoretical object that absorbs all radiation that falls on it—is proportional to the fourth power of its temperature. His law was one of the first ...
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The Jožef Stefan Institute (IJS, JSI) (Slovene: Institut "Jožef Stefan") is the largest research institute in Slovenia. The main research areas are physics, chemistry, molecular biology, biotechnology, information technologies, reactor physics, energy and environment.
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May 23, 2018 · People. Science and Technology. Physics: Biographies. Josef Stefan. Stefan, Josef. views 3,338,928 updated May 23 2018. STEFAN, JOSEF. ( b. St. Peter, near Klagenfurt, Austria, 24 March 1835; d. Vienna, Austria, 7 January 1893) physics. Stefan’s parents were of Slovene origin.
Quick Info. Born. 24 March 1835. St Peter (near Klagenfurt), Austria. Died. 7 January 1893. Vienna, Austria. Summary. Josef Stefan was an Austrian physicist, mathematician, and poet. View three larger pictures. Biography.
Josef Stefan (or Jozef Štefan) (March 24, 1835 to January 7, 1893) Stefan was an Austrian physicist and mathematician of Slovenian ethnicity. When young he considered entering the Catholic priesthood as a member of the Benedictine order, but his interest in physics led him into scientific research instead.
The Stefan–Boltzmann law, also known as Stefan's law, describes the intensity of the thermal radiation emitted by matter in terms of that matter's temperature. It is named for Josef Stefan, who empirically derived the relationship, and Ludwig Boltzmann who derived the law theoretically.