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Discovery of Entropy

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1870Date range
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1870

Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann1870

Science / Physics

The statistical definition is developed by Ludwig Boltzmann in the 1870s by analyzing the statistical behavior of the microscopic components of the system

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Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann

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