Ludwig Boltzman
Physicist and philosopher
As a pioneer of a probability-theoretical interpretation of fundamental physical laws, Ludwig Boltzmann stood at the crossroads between the mechanistic view of nature established by Isaac Newton and the new physics of Max Planck and Albert Einstein. Ludwig Boltzmann held a full professorship at the University of Graz twice (1869-73, 1876-1890) at the University of Graz, where he produced his most important works on statistical heat theory and the interpretation of the concepts of entropy and irreversibility (“Boltzmann's H-theorem”). Boltzmann was not only a gifted theorist, but also a virtuoso experimenter.
In the last years of his life, he worked in Vienna as a professor of philosophy and history of inductive sciences before taking his own life in 1906.
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