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Richard C. Tolman

Richard Chace Tolman (March 4, 1881 – September 5, 1948) was an American mathematical physicist and physical chemist who made many contributions to statistical mechanics.[1] He also made important contributions to theoretical cosmology in the years soon after Einstein's discovery of general relativity. He was a professor of physical chemistry and mathematical physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

Richard C. Tolman

(1881-03-04)March 4, 1881

West Newton, Massachusetts, U.S.

September 5, 1948(1948-09-05) (aged 67)

Pasadena, California, U.S.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, PhD)

Physical chemistry
Statistical Mechanics
Cosmology

California Institute of Technology

The Electromotive Force Produced in Solutions by Centrifugal Action (1910)

Arthur Amos Noyes

Allan C. G. Mitchell
Linus Pauling

Family[edit]

Tolman's brother was the behavioral psychologist Edward Chace Tolman.

List of textbooks in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics

Tolman length

Tolman surface brightness test

Tolman's paradox

Tolman's H theorem

Tolman–Ehrenfest effect

Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff equation

Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff limit

Lemaître–Tolman metric

Lewis–Tolman paradox

Stewart–Tolman effect

Oscillatory universe

Static spherically symmetric perfect fluid

Thin Man (nuclear bomb)

. New York: The Chemical Catalog Company. 1927.

Statistical mechanics with applications to physics and chemistry

. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1934. LCCN 34032023. Reissued (1987) New York: Dover ISBN 0-486-65383-8.

Relativity, Thermodynamics, and Cosmology

. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1938. ISBN 9780486638966. Reissued (1979) New York: Dover ISBN 0-486-63896-0. Tolman, Richard Chace (January 1987). 1987 Dover reprint. Courier Corporation. ISBN 9780486653839.

The Principles of Statistical Mechanics

from the Online Archive of California

Short biography

from the "Tolman Award" page of the Southern California Section of the American Chemical Society.

Short biography

at Project Gutenberg

Works by Richard C. Tolman

at Internet Archive

Works by or about Richard C. Tolman

National Academy of Sciences. Includes a complete bibliography of Tolman's writings. Retrieved July 14, 2017.

Biographical memoir