Carlo Cercignani, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Italian physicist and mathematician
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Place of Birth: Teulada, Sardinia, Sardinia, Italy
About Carlo Cercignani
- Carlo Cercignani (17 June 1939 in Teulada – 7 January 2010 in Milan) was an Italian mathematician known for his work on the kinetic theory of gases.
- His contributions to the study of Boltzmann's equation include the proof of the H-theorem for polyatomic gases.
- The Cercignani conjecture is named after him.He is the author of several monographs and more than 300 papers in kinetic theory, as well as of a biography of Boltzmann.
- Cercignani was member of the French Academy of Sciences and of the Accademia dei Lincei.
- He received the Humboldt Prize in 1994.
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