In thermodynamics, Gustav Jaumann (1863-1924) was an Austrian physicist who, according to Belgian chemist Ilya Prigogine, was the leader of the Vienna school of thermodynamics.
Jaumann was a student of Ernst Mach and carried Mach’s prejudice against atoms far into the twentieth-century, resulting to make himself an outsider of scientific circles. [1]
Jumann, to note, sought Boltzmann’s chair at his reaction end demise, which he was officially offered, but rejected, for unclear reasons. [2]
References
1. Muller, Ingo. (2007). A History of Thermodynamics: the Doctrine of Energy and Entropy (pg. 74). New York: Springer.
2. Blackmore, John. (1990). “Final Months & Aftermath”, in: Ludwig Boltzmann His Later Life and Philosophy, 1900-1906: Book One (§8:205-; Jumann, pg. 211). Springer.
External links
● Gustav Jaumann – Wikipedia.
