Rudolf Clausius
German physicist and mathematician
Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius was a German physicist and mathematician and is considered one of the central founding fathers of the science of thermodynamics. By his restatement of Sadi Carnot's principle known as the Carnot cycle, he gave the... Wikipedia
Born: January 2, 1822, Koszalin, Poland
Died: August 24, 1888 (age 66 years), Bonn, Germany
Children: Mathilde Zimmer
Education: Humboldt University of Berlin and ETH Zürich
Spouse: Sophie Sack (m. 1886–1888) and Adelheid Rimpau (m. 1859–1875)
Awards: Poncelet Prize (1882) and Copley Medal (1879)
Siblings: Robert Clausius