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Thermodynamicist
In science, a thermodynamicist is a person who studies systems and processes from a thermodynamic point of view. The universe, for the thermodynamicist, defined as that which is accessible to experiment, is made up of the "system" examined and its "surroundings" able to act on its evolution. [1] To a good approximation, French engineer Sadi Carnot was the world's first thermodynamicist; followed by Emile Clapeyron, Hermann Helmholtz, William Thomson, Peter Tait, William Rankine, and Rudolf Clausius.
Energeticist
A closely related term to thermodynamicist, generally a post 1940s term, was "energeticist", a term of the late 19th century. American Willard Gibbs, for instance, was often referred to as an energeticist; whereas, in modern terms, he is considered a chemical thermodynamicist or more specifically the "founder of chemical thermodynamics". [2] In the 1890s, by comparison, German energeticist Wilhelm Ostwald, often considered as the founder of the "school of energetics", who had recently translated Gibbs' On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances into French, styled Gibbs as the "founder of chemical energetics". [3]
See also
● Human thermodynamicist
● Thermodynamicist (other)
● Thermodynamics founders
● Human thermodynamics pioneers
References
1. Perrot, Pierre. (1998). A to Z of Thermodynamics, (pg. 312). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2. Nemilov, Sergei V. (1995). Thermodynamic and Kinetic Aspects of the Vitreous State, (pg. 5). CRC Press.
3. Willard Gibbs - Encyclopedia Britannica article (1910).
Energeticist
A closely related term to thermodynamicist, generally a post 1940s term, was "energeticist", a term of the late 19th century. American Willard Gibbs, for instance, was often referred to as an energeticist; whereas, in modern terms, he is considered a chemical thermodynamicist or more specifically the "founder of chemical thermodynamics". [2] In the 1890s, by comparison, German energeticist Wilhelm Ostwald, often considered as the founder of the "school of energetics", who had recently translated Gibbs' On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances into French, styled Gibbs as the "founder of chemical energetics". [3]
See also
● Human thermodynamicist
● Thermodynamicist (other)
● Thermodynamics founders
● Human thermodynamics pioneers
References
1. Perrot, Pierre. (1998). A to Z of Thermodynamics, (pg. 312). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2. Nemilov, Sergei V. (1995). Thermodynamic and Kinetic Aspects of the Vitreous State, (pg. 5). CRC Press.
3. Willard Gibbs - Encyclopedia Britannica article (1910).
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