This group collects the Physics subcategory's members whose defining work concerns heat, temperature, entropy and the statistical behavior of large numbers of particles: the founders of thermodynamics and the instrument makers who built the thermometers and calorimeters the field depends on. It is kept apart from Condensed Matter Physics, whose members study specific solid and liquid materials rather than the general statistical and thermal framework that applies across every phase of matter, and it remains the subcategory's smallest flat group by the report's own small-and-real-subfield standard.
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Field Established All Thermodynamics And Statistical Mechanics
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1. Wikipedia: Thermodynamics
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Drawing on all the previous work led Sadi Carnot, the "father of thermodynamics", to publish Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire (1824), a discourse on heat, power, energy and engine efficiency.
Yoshiki Kuramoto (Wikipedia)
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Kuramoto specializes in nonlinear dynamics (also known as nonlinear science) and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics.
Herbert Callen (Wikipedia)
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specializing in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics
Ryogo Kubo (Wikipedia)
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best known for his works in statistical physics and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics
Boris Chirikov (Wikipedia)
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The name of Boris Chirikov is associated with an impressive list of fundamental results in the field of dynamical chaos and foundations of statistical mechanics
Theodore Welton (Wikipedia)
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best known as the co-author of the fluctuation dissipation theorem
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