Founder
| Quoted Citation
| Reference
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 | “Regarded as the founder of thermodynamics, [Rudolf Clausius] gave much credit to such predecessors as Sadi Carnot, Henri Clapeyron, Robert Mayer, and others.” | Garnett Williams (1997) [1] |
 | “Scientists consider [Sadi Carnot] as the founder of thermodynamics and consider the year 1824 as the birthdate of this discipline.” | Pierre Perrot (1998) [3] |
 | “Lord Kelvin, the founder of thermodynamics, once said [in 1883]: ‘when you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is meager and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be.” | Alfred Tassel (1973) [7] |
 | “Rankine was really the founder of the modern science of thermodynamics and his was the first book on the subject.” | John Emswiler (1921) [5] |
 | “American theoretical physicist and mathematician Willard Gibbs [is] often described as the founder of thermodynamics.” | Tim Armstrong (2003) [6] |
 | “Black’s contributions [heat capacity] qualify him as the true founder of thermodynamics.” | Laszlo Tisza (1966) [4] |
 | “Indeed, nowhere in Capital probably does Marx so excel himself in vituperation as in his description of the founder of thermodynamics as ‘an American humbug, the baronised Yankee, Benjamin Thompson (alias Count Rumford) …” | Frederick Soddy (1926) [2] |
