3 lives in this collection worked in electrodynamics, from 1775 to today. Each has a full course on their life and the mathematics and physics they made.
Often together with: kinetic theory of gases. All fields
Founder of electrodynamics, who discovered the forces between electric currents in 1820 and gave them their first mathematical law.
electrodynamics, mathematics, chemistry
Founder of classical thermodynamics who stated the second law, introduced internal energy and entropy, and introduced the mean free path and the virial theorem in the kinetic theory of gases.
thermodynamics, kinetic theory of gases, mathematical physics
Viennese physicist of Slovene origin who discovered the fourth-power law of thermal radiation and founded the theory of multicomponent diffusion and moving-boundary heat problems.
thermal radiation, kinetic theory of gases, heat conduction