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• Clausius , Rudolf Julius Emmanuel — (1822–1888) German physicist Clausius, who was born in Köslin (now Koszalin in Poland), studied at the University of Berlin and obtained his doctorate from Halle in 1848. He was professor of physics at the Royal Artillery and Engineering School,… …   Scientists

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