Hans Ziegler
Physicist, Author
1910 – 1999
Who was Hans Ziegler?
Hans Ziegler was born in Winterthur, Switzerland, on 5 September 1910, and died in Estes Park, Colorado, on 5 August 1985.
Hans Ziegler was a respected academic and was the author of a number of well respected textbooks on engineering and thermodynamics, which were translated into other languages, and re-issued in new editions.
In non-equilibrium thermodynamics, he considered a 'principle of maximum dissipation rate'. He was also an early proponent of a 'principle of maximum rate of entropy production', which is closely related to that 'principle of maximum dissipation rate'. The range of applicability and validity or invalidity of these 'principles' has been examined and debated by many others, and their eventual scientific status is yet to be settled.
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- Born
- Sep 5, 1910
Munich - Nationality
- United States of America
- Germany
- Profession
- Education
- Technische Universität München
- Lived in
- New Jersey
- Munich
- Died
- Dec 11, 1999
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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