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

Thomson acknowledged in his paper the priority of Clausius in his proof of this proposition, but stated that this demonstration had occurred to him before he was aware that Clausius had dealt with the matter.

From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Gray, Andrew

Clausius put it in a negative form, as thus: No engine can of itself, without the aid of external agency, transfer heat from a body at low temperature to a body at a high temperature.

From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Poincaré, Lucien