Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius1850
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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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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