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Also Known As Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius
Born January 2, 1822 • Koszalin
Died August 24, 1888 (aged 66) • Bonn • Germany
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1879)
Subjects Of Study Clausius-Clapeyron equation • second law of thermodynamics

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