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In all cases where work is produced by heat, a quantity of heat proportional to the work done is expended and inversely, by the expenditure of a like quantity of work, the same amount of heat may be produced.

Rudolf Clausius

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Rudolf Clausius
Age: 66 †
Born: 1822
Born: January 2
Died: 1888
Died: August 24
Mathematician
Physicist
Theoretical Physicist
University Teacher
Köslin
Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius
Rudolf Gottlieb
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Thermodynamics
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