1. Marian Smoluchowski was a pioneer of statistical physics and made significant contributions to the theory of Brownian motion and stochastic processes.
13 Facts About Marian Smoluchowski
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Marian Smoluchowski was born in 1872 into an upper-class family in Vorder-Bruhl, near Vienna, to father Wilhelm and mother Teofila.
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Marian Smoluchowski attended the prestigious Collegium Theresianum and subsequently studied physics at the University of Vienna.
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Marian Smoluchowski's teachers included Franz S Exner and Josef Stefan.
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Marian Smoluchowski was president of the Polish Copernicus Society of Naturalists,.
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In 1913 Marian Smoluchowski moved to Krakow to take over a chair in the Experimental Physics Department, succeeding August Witkowski, who had long envisioned Marian Smoluchowski as his successor.
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The possibility of working in that building had been one of the reasons Marian Smoluchowski had decided to move to Krakow.
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Marian Smoluchowski was now forced to work in the apartment of the late Professor Karol Olszewski.
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Marian Smoluchowski was a member of the Copernicus Society of Natural Scientists and the Polish Academy of Sciences and Letters.
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Marian Smoluchowski died in Krakow in 1917, as a result of a dysentery epidemic.
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Marian Smoluchowski conducted fundamental research on the kinetic theory of matter.
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Marian Smoluchowski's investigations explained the blue color of the sky as a consequence of light scattering in the atmosphere.
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Marian Smoluchowski presented an equation, known as the Marian Smoluchowski equation, which became a basis for the theory of stochastic processes.