Ludwig Boltzmann

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GERMAN

Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann 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. In 1877 he provided the current definition of entropy, ${\displaystyle S=k_{\mathrm{B}}\ln <!--\; ?\; -->\mathrm{\Omega <!--\; ?\; -->}}\{\backslash displaystyle\; S=k\_\{\backslash rm\; \{B\}\}\backslash ln\; \backslash Omega\; \backslash !\}$, where ? is the number of microstates whose energy equals the system's energy, interpreted as a measure of statistical disorder of a system.[2] Max Planck named the constant kB the Boltzmann constant.[3] <

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