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   * 1761 - Joseph Black discovers that ice absorbs heat without changing
     temperature when melting
   * 1798 - Count Rumford (Benjamin Thompson) has the idea that heat is a
     form of energy
   * 1822 - Joseph Fourier formally introduces the use of dimensions for
     physical quantities in his Theorie Analytique de la Chaleur
   * 1824 - Sadi Carnot scientifically analyzes the efficiency of steam
     engines
   * 1827 - Robert Brown discovers the Brownian motion of pollen and dye
     particles in water
   * 1834 - ƒmile Clapeyron presents a formulation of the second law of
     thermodynamics
   * 1843 - James Joule experimentally finds the mechanical equivalent of
     heat
   * 1848 - Lord Kelvin discovers the absolute zero point of temperature
   * 1852 - James Joule and Lord Kelvin demonstrate that a rapidly expanding
     gas cools
   * 1859 - James Clerk Maxwell discovers the distribution law of molecular
     velocities
   * 1870 - Rudolph Clausius proves the scalar virial theorem
   * 1872 - Ludwig Boltzmann states the Boltzmann equation for the temporal
     development of distribution functions in phase space
   * 1874 - Lord Kelvin formally states the second law of thermodynamics
   * 1876 - Josiah Gibbs begins a two-year-long series of papers which
     discusses phase equilibria, the free energy as the driving force behind
     chemical reactions, and chemical thermodynamics in general
   * 1879 - Jo?ef Stefan observes that the total radiant flux from a
     blackbody is proportional to the fourth power of its temperature and
     states the Stefan-Boltzmann law
   * 1884 - Ludwig Boltzmann derives the Stefan-Boltzmann blackbody radiant
     flux law from thermodynamic considerations
   * 1888 - Henri-Louis Le Chatelier states that the response of a chemical
     system perturbed from equilbrium will be to counteract the perturbation
   * 1893 - Wilhelm Wien discovers the displacement law for a blackbody's
     maximum specific intensity
   * 1905 - Albert Einstein mathematically analyzes the Brownian motion
   * 1906 - Walther Nernst presents a formulation of the third law of
     thermodynamics
   * 1910 - Albert Einstein and Marian Smoluchowski find the
     Einstein-Smoluchowski formula for the attenuation coefficient due to
     density fluctuations in a gas
   * 1916 - Sydney Chapman and David Enskog systematically develop a kinetic
     theory of gases
   * 1919 - James Jeans discovers that the dynamical constants of motion
     determine the distribution function for a system of particles
   * 1920 - Meghnad Saha states his ionization equation
   * 1923 - Pieter Debye and Erich Huckel publish a statistical treatment of
     the dissociation of electrolytes
   * 1928 - J.B. Johnson discovers Johnson noise in a resistor
   * 1928 - Harry Nyquist derives the fluctuation-dissipation relationship
     for a resistor to explain Johnson noise
   * 1942 - J.L. Doob states his theorem on Gaussian-Markoff processes
   * 1957 - A.S. Kompaneets derives his Compton scattering Fokker-Planck
     equation

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