Merle Randall
Merle Randall (January 29, 1888 – March 17, 1950)
In 1932, Merle Randall authored two scientific papers with
Education
Randall completed his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1912 with a dissertation on "Studies in Free Energy".[4]
Related
Based on work by
According to the Belgian thermodynamicist Ilya Prigogine, their influential 1923 textbook led to the replacement of the term "affinity" by the term "free energy" in much of the English-speaking world.
See also
References
- ^ University of California: In Memoriam 1950 Merle Randall, Chemistry: Berkeley
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- ^ Randall, Merle (1912). Studies in Free Energy. Ph.D. Thesis/dissertation — Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Further reading
- Lewis, Gilbert Newton; Randall, Merle (1961). Thermodynamics. Revised by ISBN 0-07-113809-9.
- Randall, M.; Young, L.E. (1942). Elementary Physical Chemistry. Randall and sons.