Otto Sackur
Otto Sackur · Science & Medicine
Physical chemist known for the Sackur–Tetrode equation
1880, Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) — 1914, Berlin, Germany
Germany
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Otto Sackur was a German physical chemist who, independently of Hugo Tetrode, derived the Sackur–Tetrode equation giving the absolute entropy of an ideal gas — an early triumph applying quantum ideas to thermodynamics. He died at 34 in a laboratory explosion at Fritz Haber's institute. Born to a Jewish family in Breslau, he was Jewish.
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Physical chemist known for the Sackur–Tetrode equation
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