An 1897 encyclopedia definition of thermodynamicist, defined as a student of or one versed in thermodynamics. [7] In 1891, William Magie was described as a “thermodynamicist trained by Helmholtz”. (Ѻ) |
“There’s as many formulations of the second law as there have been discussions of it.”
“I hesitate to use the terms ‘first law’ and ‘second law’, because there are almost as many ‘first laws’ as there are thermodynamicists, and I have been told by these people for so many years that I disobey their laws that now I prefer to exult in my criminal status and non-condemning names to the concrete mathematical axioms I wish to use in my outlaw studies of heat and temperature. The term ‘entropy’ seems superfluous, also, since it suggest nothing to ordinary persons and only intense headaches to those who have studied thermodynamics but have not given in and joined the professionals.”
“There’s as many version of the second law as there are thermodynamicists.”