Rudolf Clausius, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Rudolf Clausius

German mathematical physicist

Date of Birth: 02-Jan-1822

Place of Birth: Koszalin, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 24-Aug-1888

Profession: mathematician, university teacher, theoretical physicist

Nationality: German Empire

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius (German pronunciation: ['?u?d?lf 'kla??zi??s]; 2 January 1822 – 24 August 1888) was a German physicist and mathematician and is considered one of the central founders of the science of thermodynamics.
By his restatement of Sadi Carnot's principle known as the Carnot cycle, he gave the theory of heat a truer and sounder basis.
His most important paper, "On the Moving Force of Heat", published in 1850, first stated the basic ideas of the second law of thermodynamics.
In 1865 he introduced the concept of entropy.
In 1870 he introduced the virial theorem which applied to heat.