Boltzmann

[ bawlts-mahn; English bohlts-muhn ]

noun

1. Ludwig [lood, -vi, kh, loot, -], 1844–1906, Austrian physicist.

Boltzmann

/ ˈbɔltsman /

noun

1. BoltzmannLudwig18441906MAustrianSCIENCE: physicist 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

Boltzmann

/ 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.

Example Sentences

His approach relies on concepts of thermodynamics that were first articulated by Ludwig Boltzmann in the 19th century but only became practical to apply in the 1950s with the arrival of the first computers.

From Science Daily

Postscript: Thanks to physicist Richard Gaylord for sending me the Boltzmann lecture and other materials related to theoretical pluralism and encouraging me to write about it.

From Scientific American

By modeling a gas as a collection of atoms, governed by the rules of statistics, Boltzmann was able to establish a microscopic basis for the elusive second law of thermodynamics.

From Salon

For a steady-temperature system, metrologists can combine these density measurements — effectively the number of particles in the cavity — with the Boltzmann constant, which relates temperature to kinetic energy.

From Nature

The ampere, the kelvin and the mole will also be redefined based on their relationships to the charge on the electron, Boltzmann’s constant and Avogadro’s number, respectively.

From Nature