Théophile de Donder
Théophile de Donder | |
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Université Libre de Bruxelles | |
Academic advisors | Henri Poincaré |
Doctoral students | Ilya Prigogine Léon Van Hove Théophile Lepage |
Théophile Ernest de Donder (French: [də dɔ̃dɛʁ]; 19 August 1872 – 11 May 1957) was a Belgian mathematician, physicist and chemist famous for his work (published in 1923) in developing correlations between the Newtonian concept of chemical affinity and the Gibbsian concept of free energy.
Education
He received his doctorate in physics and mathematics from the
Career
He was professor between 1911 and 1942, at the
He is considered the father of thermodynamics of irreversible processes.[2] De Donder's work was later developed further by Ilya Prigogine. De Donder was an associate and friend of Albert Einstein. He was in 1927, one of the participants of the fifth Solvay Conference on Physics, that took place at the International Solvay Institute for Physics in Belgium.
Books by De Donder
- Thermodynamic Theory of Affinity: A Book of Principles. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press (1936)
- The Mathematical Theory of Relativity. Cambridge, MA: MIT (1927)[3]
- Sur la théorie des invariants intégraux (thesis) (1899).
- Théorie du champ électromagnétique de Maxwell-Lorentz et du champ gravifique d'Einstein (1917)
- La gravifique Einsteinienne (1921)
- Introduction à la gravifique einsteinienne (1925)[4]
- Théorie mathématique de l'électricité (1925)[5]
- Théorie des champs gravifiques (1926)[6]
- Application de la gravifique einsteinienne (1930)
- Théorie invariantive du calcul des variations (1931)[7]
See also
- Chemical affinity
- Chemical thermodynamics
- Extent of reaction
- Schrödinger equation
- de Donder gauge
- de Donder–Weyl theory
References
- ^ Acad. Roy. Belg., Bull. Cl. Sc., page 169, 1968.
- ISBN 0-19-856556-9.
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External links
- Theophile de Donder - Science World at Wolfram.com
- Prigogine on de Donder
- De Donder's math genealogy
- De Donder's academic tree