Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem (French: [pjɛʁ mɔʁis maʁi dy.ɛm, – moʁ-] ; 9 June 1861 – 14 September 1916) was a French theoretical physicist who worked on...
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falsifications are impossible. It is named after French theoretical physicist Pierre Duhem and American logician Willard Van Orman Quine, who wrote about similar...
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phenomena. The equation is named after Josiah Willard Gibbs and Pierre Duhem. Deriving the Gibbs–Duhem equation from the fundamental thermodynamic equation is...
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Energeticism (section Duhem's energetics)
during the end of the 19th century by Wilhelm Ostwald, Georg Helm and Pierre Duhem. It was also promoted by physicist Ernst Mach who opposed atomic theory...
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Thermodynamic potential (section Gibbs–Duhem relation)
meanings. The concept of thermodynamic potentials was introduced by Pierre Duhem in 1886. Josiah Willard Gibbs in his papers used the term fundamental...
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Confirmation holism (redirect from Duhem's problem)
his holism through extending Pierre Duhem's problem of underdetermination in physical theory to all knowledge claims. Duhem's idea was, roughly, that no...
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Scientific formalism (section Duhem)
constructive empiricism. A physicist who took the issues involved seriously was Pierre Duhem, writing at the beginning of the twentieth century. He wrote an extended...
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The Duhem–Margules equation, named for Pierre Duhem and Max Margules, is a thermodynamic statement of the relationship between the two components of a...
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the German physicist Rudolf Clausius and French physicist Pierre Duhem. The Clausius–Duhem inequality can be expressed in integral form as d d t ( ∫ Ω...
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Pierre Joseph Duhem (8 July 1758 – 24 March 1807) was a French physician and politician. Son of a weaver, he was born in Lille. He was study supervisor...
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