Ludwig Boltzmann

Born

February 20, 1844

Died

September 5, 1906 (aged 62)

Known as

physicist, chemist, university teacher, mathematician, philosopher, theoretical physicist

Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann was an Austrian mathematician and theoretical physicist. 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, , where Ω is the number of microstates whose energy equals the system's energy, interpreted as a measure of the statistical disorder of a system. Max Planck named the constant kB the Boltzmann constant.

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