...read my paper at all. Kirchoff expressly disapproved. ... I did not succeed in reaching Claussius. He did not answer my letters, and I did not find him...Neumann, of Leipzig, but it remained totally fruitless. And among historians of science there are well-documented accounts of the resistance to theories now...

...alone approval, even among the very physicists who were clearly connected with the topic. KirchorT expressly disapproved. I did not succeed in reaching...at home when I tried to see him in person at Bonn. 1 carried on a correspondence with Carl Neumann, of Leipzig, but it remained totally fruitless' (Planck,...

...Kirchhoff expressly disapproved. I did not succeed in reaching Clausius. He did not answer my letter, and I did not find him at home when I tried to see...Carl Neumann, of Leipzig, but it remained totally pointless." He was lucky: Wegener was persecuted mercilessly when he proposed his theory of continental...

...the comment that . . . the concept of entropy . . . must not be applied to irreversible processes. I did not succeed in reaching Clausius. He did not...find him at home when I tried to see him in person in Bonn.2 See the remarks about Newton's lectures in Chapter 4! There are two interesting aspects to...