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No. 1 (July 29, 2018)
No. 2 (June 10, 2019)
No. 3 (May 19, 2021)
No. 4 (Jan. 31, 2022)  normal-printing ver.  spread-printing ver. corrected on Feb. 11,  8 am-UTC
    No. 5 (Sept. 1, 2022)  
   
 
    Part 2 (since Thermal No. 4)
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World Languages on Thermal


  Memorial Slides after IHTC-14
Memorial Slides after IHTC-15
Memorial Slides after IHTC-16


Report on Plenary Panel
“The Role of Thermal Science in Meeting Societal Challenges”
at the 15th International Heat Transfer Conference (IHTC-15)

HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE THOUGHT OF THERMAL SCIENCE - HEAT AND ENTROPY
PREFACE AND CHAPTERS 18-20
(250 YEARS AFTER JAMES WATT AND 200 YEARS AFTER SADI CARNOT)
by Yoshitaka Yamamoto    (English Translation by Hideo Yoshida)
 

International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer (ICHMT)
Brief Introduction to Member Institutions and Scientific Council Members (October, 2020, revised January 2022)




September 1982 (IHTC-7) in München
 
                                                                                        January 1982                                                     January 1983

                                                                                  From Galilei to Nernst in Thermal Science


Born in the sixteenth century
Galileo Galilei (1564‒1642)
Pierre Gassendi (1592‒1655)
René Descartes (1596‒1650)
Born in the seventeenth century
Robert Boyle (1627‒1691)
Robert Hooke (1635‒1703)
Isaac Newton (1642‒1727)
Thomas Savery (ca.1650‒1715)
Thomas Newcomen (1664‒1729)
Herman Boerhaave (1668‒1738)
Stephen Hales (1677‒1761)
John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683‒1744)
Colin Maclaurin (1698‒1746)
Born in the eighteenth century
Benjamin Franklin (1706‒1790)
William Cullen (1710‒1790)
David Hume (1711‒1776)
Joseph Black (1728‒1799)
James Watt (1736‒1819)
William Irvine (1743‒1787)
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743‒1794)
Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749‒1827)
Benjamin Thompson, Count von Rumford (1753‒1814)
Lazare Carnot (1753–1823)
William Cleghorn (1754‒1783) (not Wikipedia)
John Dalton (1766‒1844)

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768‒1830)
Thomas Young (1773‒1829)
Charles Bernard Desormes (1777‒1838)
Louis Joseph Gay-Lussac (1778‒1850)
Nicolas Clément (1779–1841)
Siméon Denis Poisson (1781‒1840)
Michael Faraday (1791‒1867)
William Whewell (1794‒1866)
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796‒1832)
Émile Clapeyron (1799‒1864)
Born in the nineteenth century
Henri Regnault (1810–1878)
Carl Holtzmann (1811‒1865) (German)
Julius Robert von Mayer (1814‒1878)
James Prescott Joule (1818‒1889)
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (1821‒1894)
Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius (1822‒1888)
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824‒1907)
Julius Thomsen (1826‒1909)
Pierre Eugène Marcellin Berthelot (1827‒1907)
James Clerk Maxwell (1831‒1879)
Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839‒1903)
August Horstmann (1842‒1929)
Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann (1844‒1906)
Jacobus Henricus vanʼt Hoff (1852‒1911)
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (1858‒1947)
Walther Hermann Nernst (1864‒1941)