Josef Stefan

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Austrian scientist person physicist

Josef Stefan was a 19th-century Austrian physicist best known for formulating the Stefan–Boltzmann law relating the temperature of a black body to its radiant energy.

Statements (44)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Austrian scientist → person → physicist →
causeOfDeath	illness →
centuryOfActivity	19th century →
countryOfCitizenship	Austrian Empire →
dateOfBirth	1835-03-24 →
dateOfDeath	1893-01-07 →
educatedAt	University of Vienna →
employer	University of Vienna →
ethnicGroup	Carinthian Slovene →
familyName	Stefan →
fieldOfWork	experimental physics → heat transfer → radiation theory → thermodynamics →
formulated	Stefan–Boltzmann law →
gender	male →
givenName	Josef →
hasAcademicAdvisor	Andreas von Ettingshausen →
hasStefanBoltzmannConstantNamedAfter	Stefan–Boltzmann constant →
hasStefanBoltzmannLawNamedAfter	Stefan–Boltzmann law →
influenced	Ludwig Boltzmann →
influencedBy	James Clerk Maxwell →
knownFor	Stefan problem → Stefan–Boltzmann law →
languageOfWorkOrName	German → Slovene →
memberOf	Austrian Academy of Sciences →
notableStudent	Ludwig Boltzmann →
notableWork	experimental determination of the constant in the Stefan–Boltzmann law → formulation of the Stefan–Boltzmann law →
occupation	mathematician → physicist →
placeOfBirth	Carinthia → Sankt Peter im Holz →
placeOfDeath	Vienna →
positionHeld	director of the Physical Institute at the University of Vienna → professor of physics →
religion	Roman Catholicism →
residence	Vienna →
studied	kinetic theory of gases → radiation of black bodies →
workLocation	Vienna →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Ludwig Boltzmann →	doctoralAdvisor
Stefan–Boltzmann law →	namedAfter
Stefan–Boltzmann law →	proposedBy