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Thermodynamics

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1850

Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius1850

Science / Physics

His most important paper, On the mechanical theory of heat, published in 1850, first states the basic ideas of the second law of thermodynamics

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Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius

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