8 lives in this collection worked in statistical mechanics, from 1831 to today. Each has a full course on their life and the mathematics and physics they made.
Often together with: quantum theory, theoretical physics, thermodynamics, kinetic theory. All fields
Scottish physicist who unified electricity, magnetism and light in a field theory and introduced statistical methods into physics.
electromagnetism, kinetic theory, statistical mechanics
Dutch physicist whose equation of state unified gas and liquid, explained the critical point and founded the molecular theory of phase transitions; Nobel Prize in Physics 1910.
thermodynamics, molecular physics, statistical mechanics
Yale physicist who founded chemical thermodynamics, created the ensemble formulation of statistical mechanics and introduced modern vector analysis.
thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, physical chemistry
Founder of statistical mechanics, author of the Boltzmann equation, the H-theorem and the statistical interpretation of entropy, and champion of the atomic theory.
theoretical physics, statistical mechanics, kinetic theory
Originator of quantum theory, who introduced the quantum of action h in his 1900 derivation of the black-body radiation law.
theoretical physics, thermodynamics, quantum theory
Creator of special and general relativity, of the light-quantum hypothesis and of the theory of Brownian motion, and founder of relativistic cosmology.
theoretical physics, relativity, quantum theory
Austrian-Dutch theoretical physicist, successor of Lorentz at Leiden, known for the urn model, the adiabatic principle, Ehrenfest's theorem and the classification of phase transitions.
statistical mechanics, quantum theory, theoretical physics
Italian-American physicist who created Fermi–Dirac statistics and the theory of beta decay, discovered the power of slow neutrons, and led the team that built the first nuclear reactor.
nuclear physics, particle physics, statistical mechanics