Mathematician:Josef Stefan

Mathematician

Austrian Carinthian Slovene physicist, mathematician, and poet of the Austrian Empire.

Nationality

Austrian, of Slovenian descent

History

• Born: 24 March 1835 in St. Peter, Austrian Empire (now in Klagenfurt, Austria)
• Died: 7 January 1893 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria)

Theorems and Definitions

• Stefan Problem
• Stefan Flow
• Stefan Number

• Maxwell-Stefan Diffusion (with James Clerk Maxwell)
• Maxwell-Stefan Diffusion Coefficient (with James Clerk Maxwell)

• Stefan-Boltzmann Constant (with Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann)

• Stefan's Equation
• Stefan's Formula

• Stefan-Boltzmann Law (with Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann)

Results named for Josef Stefan can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Josef Stefan can be found here.

Publications

• 1872: Untersuchung über die Wärmeleitung in Gasen, Erste Abhandlung
• 1875: Untersuchung über die Wärmeleitung in Gasen, Zweite Abhandlung
• 1879: Über die Beziehung zwischen der Wärmestrahlung und der Temperatur
• 1889: Über die Theorie der Eisbildung, insbesondere über die Eisbildung im Polarmeere

Also known as

His name in Slovene: Jožef Štefan.

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Josef Stefan": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive