Mike Tyka
marcsen@mtyka what’s the name of the book, might be a good read
@marcsen I think it's States of Matter, by David. L. Goodstein. And yes, totally my kind of entertainment. 😁
@mtyka Thank you, that seems to be the one. I will give it a shot (and hopefully not end up hurting myself)
@marcsen Boltzmann likely had bipolar disorder. His theories were criticised by opponents of atomic theory. It was only 2 years later (1908) that Perrin measured Brownian motion and calculated the size of atoms using Einstein's 1905 model.