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Ludwig Boltzmann

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Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann (, US: ; German: [ˈluːtvɪk ˈbɔltsman]; 20 February 1844 – 5 September 1906) was an Austrian theoretical physicist and philosopher. His greatest achievements were the development of statistical mechanics and the statistical explanation of the second law of thermodynamics. In 1877 he provided the current definition of entropy,

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