Marian Smoluchowski

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academic human physicist statistical physicist university teacher

Marian Smoluchowski was a Polish physicist and pioneer of statistical physics whose work on molecular motion and fluctuations helped establish the kinetic theory of matter and advanced the understanding of Brownian motion.

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Smoluchowski ×1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	academic → human → physicist → statistical physicist → university teacher →
academicDegree	doctorate in physics →
burialPlace	Rakowicki Cemetery →
causeOfDeath	dysentery →
countryOfBirth	Austrian Empire →
countryOfCitizenship	Austria-Hungary →
countryOfDeath	Austria-Hungary →
dateOfBirth	1872-05-28 →
dateOfDeath	1917-09-05 →
educatedAt	University of Berlin → University of Glasgow → University of Paris → University of Vienna →
employer	Jagiellonian University → University of Lviv →
ethnicGroup	Poles →
familyName	Smoluchowski →
fieldOfWork	Brownian motion → kinetic theory of gases → molecular physics → statistical physics → thermodynamics →
givenName	Marian →
hasHeritage	Polish nobility →
influenced	Albert Einstein → development of modern statistical mechanics →
influencedBy	Ludwig Boltzmann →
knownFor	Smoluchowski coagulation equation → Smoluchowski diffusion equation → kinetic theory of matter → theory of density fluctuations → work on Brownian motion →
languageOfWorkOrName	German → Polish →
memberOf	Polish Academy of Learning →
name	Marian Smoluchowski →
nativeLanguage	Polish →
notableWork	papers on kinetic theory of gases → theoretical explanation of Brownian motion →
occupation	physicist → university professor →
placeOfBirth	Vienna →
placeOfDeath	Kraków →
positionHeld	professor at Jagiellonian University → professor at University of Lviv → rector of Jagiellonian University →
sexOrGender	male →

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Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Einstein–Smoluchowski relation → Smoluchowski coagulation equation →	namedAfter
Marian Smoluchowski ("Smoluchowski") →	familyName
Marian Smoluchowski →	name
Brownian motion →	theoreticalExplanationBy