克劳修斯是德国物理学家和数学家,是气体动理论和热力学的主要奠基人之一,曾先后任柏林炮兵工程学院、苏黎世工业大学、维尔茨堡大学、波恩大学物理学教授.克劳修斯在国际上拥有很高的声望,被法国科学院、英国皇家学会和彼得堡科学院选为院士或会员,他在热学理论上的众多贡献如今都是大学和中学物理教材中的重要内容.克劳修斯1822年1月2日生于普鲁士的克斯林(今波兰科沙林)的一个牧师家庭.在他父亲创 Clausius, a German physicist and mathematician, is one of the major founders of the theory of gas dynamics and thermodynamics. He has successively served as director of Artillery Engineering Berlin, Zurich University of Technology, University of Würzburg, and professor of physics at Bonn University. Lauchius has a high international reputation and has been selected by the French Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society of England and the Academy of Sciences as an academician or member. His numerous contributions to thermo-logical theory are now an important part of university and secondary school physics textbooks. Clausius was born on January 2, 1822, in Prussia, a clergy family in Koslin (now Koslan, Poland)