Hans Ziegler was born in Winterthur, Switzerland, on 5 September 1910, and died in Estes Park, Colorado, on 5 August 1985.[1] He was raised and spent his early career in Switzerland but much of his later career in the United States.
Hans Ziegler was a respected academic and was the author of a number of well respected textbooks on engineering and thermodynamics, which were translated into other languages, and re-issued in new editions.
In non-equilibrium thermodynamics, he considered a 'principle of maximum dissipation rate'. He was also an early proponent of a 'principle of maximum rate of entropy production', which is closely related to a 'principle of maximum dissipation rate'. The range of applicability and validity or invalidity of these 'principles' has been examined and debated by many others,[2][3][4] and their eventual scientific status is yet to be settled.
- ^ "Prof. Hans Ziegler - Timeline".
- ^ Lavenda, B.H. (1978). Thermodynamics of Irreversible Processes, Macmillan, London, ISBN 0-333-21616-4
- ^ Martyushev, L.M., Seleznev, V.D. (2006), Maximum entropy production principle in physics, chemistry, and biology, Physics Reports, 426: 1-45.
- ^ Grandy, W.T., Jr (2008). Entropy and the Time Evolution of Macroscopic Systems, Oxford University Press, Oxford, ISBN 978-0-19-954617-6.