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- Title
Marian Smoluchowski (On the tenth anniversary of his death).
- Authors
Hessen, Boris M.
- Abstract
"If we consider chance, according to a popular expression, to be a negation of regularity", Smoluchowski states, "then we will be faced with an insoluble contradiction" (Smoluchowski 1918, 253; Smolukhovskiy 1927, 150 [TN]). Since that time, as Einstein remarks, due in large part to Smoluchowski's work, universal recognition of the kinetic theory has been established and confidence in the reality of atoms has begun to spread among physicists. 7 Smoluchowski provides a remarkable overview of his physical works in Smoluchowski, 1913, 261; Smoluchowski 1916, 557. [144] September of the current year (1927) marked tenth anniversary of the death of Marian Smoluchowski.[1] Smoluchowski's works are of outstanding importance not only for the physicist.
- Subjects
PHILOSOPHY of science; STATISTICAL physics; ATOMIC physics; KINETIC theory of matter
- Publication
Science in Context (0269-8897), 2021, Vol 34, Issue 1, p137
- ISSN
0269-8897
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0269889722000072