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Real People Who Have Equations (and Other Important Things) Named After Them
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Rudolf Clausius (1822- 1888, German) & Benoît Clapeyron (1799-1864, French) Clausius-Clapeyron Equation
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Blaise Pascal (1623- 1662, French) Pressure unit (Pa)
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Daniel Bernoulli (1700-1782, Dutch-Swiss) Bernoulli Equation
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Francois-Marie Raoult (1830 – 1901, French) Raoult’s Law
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William Henry (1775-1836, English) Henry’s Law
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Frederick Trouton (1863 – 1922, Irish) Trouton’s Rule
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Germain Hess (1802-1850, Russian) Hess’s Law
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Hermann Kopp (1817-1892, German) Kopp’s Rule
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Isaac Newton (1643-1727, English) Laws of Motion, Calculus, Newton’s Method
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James Joule (1818-1889, English) First Law of Thermodynamics (and unit of energy, joules)
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Lord Kelvin (1824 – 1907, English) Kelvin scale of temperature measurement
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James Watt (1736-1819, Scottish) Developed steam engine, SI unit of power (watts)
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Johannes van der Waals (1837 – 1923, Dutch) Van der Waals equation of state
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Willard Gibbs (1839 – 1914, American) Gibbs phase rule
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Richard Felder (1939 – present, American) & Ron Rousseau (1944 – present, American) Authors of the top selling introductory chemical engineering textbook in the United States
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