Josef Nabl

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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

  1. ^ According to Blackmore, perhaps mediated by his friend Stefan Meyer
personal data
SURNAME Nabl, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1876
DATE OF DEATH 1953