3 lives in this collection worked in kinetic theory of gases, from 1818 to today. Each has a full course on their life and the mathematics and physics they made.
Often together with: electrodynamics, thermodynamics. All fields
Manchester brewer and experimenter who found the law of electrical heating and measured the mechanical equivalent of heat, the experimental basis of energy conservation.
thermodynamics, electricity and magnetism, kinetic theory of gases
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