Article ID: CBB000079163

Einstein's controversy with Drude and the origin of statistical mechanics: A new glimpse from the “love letters” (1997)

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Description “In this paper I argue that statistical mechanics, at least in the version published by Einstein in 1902, was the result of a reinterpretation of already existing results by Boltzmann.”


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Authors & Contributors
Schilling, Govert
Greco, Pietro
Wolff, Stefan L.
Teichmann, Jürgen
Schmitt, Richard Henry
Schlüter, Steffen
Journals
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Physics in Perspective
Jahrb. Brandenburg. Landesgesch.
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
Dynamis: Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam
Publishers
Princeton University Press
Nauka
Medien Verlag Köhler
Kluwer Academic
Deutsch
Carocci Editore
Concepts
Physics
Relativity
Theoretical physics
Quantum mechanics
Science
Statistical mechanics
People
Einstein, Albert
Boltzmann, Ludwig
Planck, Max
Drude, Paul
Nicolai, Georg Friedrich
Sommerfeld, Arnold Johannes Wilhelm
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
Places
France
Munich (Germany)
Institutions
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Physik, Berlin
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