History of Thermodynamics & Heat Transfer

Background

Timeline

Thermodynamics Pioneers

Nicholas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796 - 1832) Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius (1822 - 1888) Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839 - 1903) Hermann Ludwig von Helmholtz (1821 - 1894) James Prescott Joule (1818 - 1889) James Clerk Maxwell (1831 - 1879) Julius Robert Mayer (1814 - 1878)

Heat Transfer Pioneers

Jean Baptiste Biot (1774-1862) Allan Philip Colburn (1904-1955) Baron Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) Leo Graetz (1856-1941) Franz Grashof (1826-1893) Max Jakob (1879-1955) Wilhelm Nusslet (1882-1957) Jean Claude Eugene Peclet (1793-1857) Ludwig Prandtl (1875-1953) Lord Rayleigh (1842-1919) Osborne Reynolds (1842-1912) Ernst Schmidt (1892-1975) Thomas Kilgore Sherwood (1903-1976) Sir Thomas Edward Stanton (1865-1931)