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1 Real People Who Have Equations (and Other Important Things) Named After Them

2 Rudolf Clausius (1822- 1888, German) & Benoît Clapeyron (1799-1864, French) Clausius-Clapeyron Equation

3 Blaise Pascal (1623- 1662, French) Pressure unit (Pa)

4 Daniel Bernoulli (1700-1782, Dutch-Swiss) Bernoulli Equation

5 Francois-Marie Raoult (1830 – 1901, French) Raoult’s Law

6 William Henry (1775-1836, English) Henry’s Law

7 Frederick Trouton (1863 – 1922, Irish) Trouton’s Rule

8 Germain Hess (1802-1850, Russian) Hess’s Law

9 Hermann Kopp (1817-1892, German) Kopp’s Rule

10 Isaac Newton (1643-1727, English) Laws of Motion, Calculus, Newton’s Method

11 James Joule (1818-1889, English) First Law of Thermodynamics (and unit of energy, joules)

12 Lord Kelvin (1824 – 1907, English) Kelvin scale of temperature measurement

13 James Watt (1736-1819, Scottish) Developed steam engine, SI unit of power (watts)

14 Johannes van der Waals (1837 – 1923, Dutch) Van der Waals equation of state

15 Willard Gibbs (1839 – 1914, American) Gibbs phase rule

16 Richard Felder (1939 – present, American) & Ron Rousseau (1944 – present, American) Authors of the top selling introductory chemical engineering textbook in the United States

17 Your Name Here! ?


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