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Born March 24, 1835 • Austria
Died January 7, 1893 (aged 57) • Vienna • Austria
Subjects Of Study Stefan-Boltzmann law • blackbody radiation
Paul Ehrenfest
Austrian theoretical physicist
Boltzmann, Ludwig Eduard
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist
Max Planck
Max Planck
German physicist
William W. Coblentz
American scientist
Wolfgang Pauli, 1945.
Wolfgang Pauli
American physicist
Erwin Schrödinger
Erwin Schrödinger
Austrian physicist
Anton Zeilinger
Anton Zeilinger
Austrian quantum physicist
Ernst Mach
Austrian physicist
Walter Kohn
American physicist
Lise Meitner
Lise Meitner
Austrian physicist
Victor Francis Hess
Austrian physicist
Christian Doppler
Austrian physicist
Arsène d’Arsonval
French physician and physicist
William Penney
British scientist
Alfred Otto Carl Nier
American physicist
George Pake
American physicist
Understanding Newton's theory of universal gravitation
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
German-American physicist
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
British physicist and chemist
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher

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