Richard Mollier

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Richard Mollier, excerpt from a plaque for Mollier's 100th birthday in Dresden

Richard Mollier (born November 30, 1863 in Trieste ; † March 13, 1935 in Dresden ) was a professor of applied physics and mechanical engineering in Göttingen and Dresden and a pioneer in researching physical data for thermodynamics , especially for water , steam and humid air .

Life

Richard Mollier's grave in the Tolkewitz urn grove

After attending a German grammar school in Trieste, Mollier began studying mathematics and physics at the University of Graz and continued at the Technical College in Munich. As a private lecturer in theoretical machine theory, Mollier presented the first publications. After a short episode in Göttingen , which began in 1896 , Mollier was appointed full professor of mechanical engineering at the Dresden University of Technology in 1897 as the successor to Gustav Zeuner . The "New Diagrams for Technical Heat Science" published in 1904 made the calculation of thermodynamic processes much easier.

In 1923 a thermodynamics congress in Los Angeles decided to name all diagrams showing the enthalpy on an axis after Mollier, e.g. B. the Hs diagram for water vapor or the hx diagram for moist air.

In 1928 he was awarded the Grashof Memorial Medal from the Association of German Engineers .

Mollier died in Dresden in 1935. His grave is on the Tolkewitz urn grove . At the TU Dresden, the Mollier building is a reminder of the scientist. On the occasion of his 100th birthday, a memorial plaque was unveiled at the Mollier building.

Publications (selection)

  • The heat diagram (entropy-temperature diagram) (1893). Digital copy of the SLUB Dresden
  • The entropy of heat (1895)
  • Steam tables and graphs of carbon dioxide (1896)
  • New diagrams for technical thermodynamics (1904)

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personal data
SURNAME Mollier, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Trieste
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1935
Place of death Dresden