In thermodynamics, Edward P. Culverwell (1855-1931) was an Irish physicist noted for his 1890s objections to Austrian physicist Ludwig Boltzmann’s 1872 H-theorem solution to derive irreversible consequences from reversible premises. [1]
Education
Culverwell completed his MA at Dublin College.
References
1. (a) Brush, Stephen. (1976). “Irreversibility and Indeterminism: Fourier to Heisenberg” (abs), Journal of the History of Ideas, 37: 603-30.
(b) Mirowski, Philip. (1989). More Heat than Light: Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature’s Economics (pg. 65). Cambridge University Press.
Further reading
● Culverwell, Edward P. (1890). Elementary Mechanics. Longmans, Green, and Co.
● Culverwell, Edward P. (1890). “Note on: Boltzmann’s Kinetic Theory of Gases, and on Sir W. Thomson’s Address to Section A, British Association, 1884” (pdf), Philosophical Magazine, Series 5, Vol. 30, pgs. 95-99.
● Culverwell, Edward P. (1894). “Boltzmann’s Minimum Theorem” (pdf), Nature, 51: 246. Dec 29.
● Culverwell, Edward P. (1894). “The Kinetic Theory of Gases” (abs), Nature, 51, 78-79.
● Lindley, David. (2001). Boltzmann’s Atom: the Great Debate that Launched a Revolution in Physics (Culverwell, 5+ pgs.). The Free Press.
External links
● Edward P. Culverwell – InformationPhilospher.com.
