Josef Nabl
Josef Nabl (* 1876 ; † 1953 ) was an Austrian physicist .
Nabl studied and did his doctorate in Vienna and was Ludwig Boltzmann's last assistant . Around 1900 he was at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge with Joseph John Thomson . In 1905 he wrote with Boltzmann on his last work, the review article Kinetic Theory of Matter in the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences (published 1907). Due to a serious wound in World War I , he had to give up physics.
His brother Franz Nabl (1883–1974) was a novelist.
source
- John T. Blackmore Ludwig Boltzmann , Kluwer 1995.
literature
- Gustav Jäger, J. Nabl, Stefan Meyer Three assistants on Boltzmann , Synthesis, Vol. 119, 1996, p. 69 (with letters from Nabl from Cambridge to Meyer, in which he reports on Lord Kelvin's rejection of Boltzmann's statistical mechanics).
Remarks
- ^ According to Blackmore, perhaps mediated by his friend Stefan Meyer
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SURNAME | Nabl, Josef |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian physicist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1876 |
DATE OF DEATH | 1953 |