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Authorised form of nameBoltzmann; Ludwig (1844 - 1906)
Dates1844 - 1906
Place of birthVienna, Austria
Date of birth20 February 1844
Place of deathDuino, near Trieste, Italy
Date of death05/09/1906
Research fieldPhysics
Membership categoryForeign Member
Date of election01/06/1899
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1907-1908 vol 80 pp xi-xiii signed by G H B
References:
J S Rowlinson, 'The Paradox of Irreversibility', review of Carlo Cercignani, Ludwig Boltzmann: the Man Who Trusted Atoms in NR 1999 vol 53 p 374
CodeNA7610
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
NLB/19/260Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrrs Harrison & Sons20 July 1899
NLB/37/417Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor [Joseph] Larmor, Secretary of the Royal Society16 March 1908
MS/603/1/95Letter from Ludwig Boltzmann, Turkenstrasse 3, Wien IX, to [Joseph Larmor]20 May 1900
EC/1899/18Boltzmann, Ludwig: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MS/603/1/96Letter from Ludwig Boltzmann, Turkenstrasse 3, Wien IX 1, to [Joseph Larmor]n.d. [1900]
MS/603/1/94Letter from Ludwig Boltzmann, Turkenstrasse 3, Wien IX, to [Joseph Larmor]7 January 1900
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