Image: Ludwig Boltzmann; Source ... unfathomable end — an inconceivable act that betrayed a meaningful life. Paul Ehrenfest was a great scientist. He was not a good judge of the life he had ...

by discouragingly informing readers that "Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on his work ...

THEORETICAL physics has lost one of its ablest and most enthusiastic exponents through the death on September 25 last of Paul Ehrenfest ... he studied first under Boltzmann.

A few weeks back, MIT Press published a piece about Paul Ehrenfest by Eric Johnson, whose biography of Boltzmann I reviewed ... to a textbook in history: Ludwig Boltzman, who spent much of his ...