Marian Smoluchowski

Marian Smoluchowski
Smoluchowski ca. 1913
Born	(1872-05-28)28 May 1872 Vorder-Brühl, Austria-Hungary
Died	5 September 1917(1917-09-05) (aged 45) Kraków, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
Nationality	Polish
Alma mater	University of Vienna
Known for	Pioneering statistical physics Smoluchowski equation Smoluchowski coagulation equation Smoluchowski factor Einstein–Smoluchowski relation Feynman–Smoluchowski ratchet Helmholtz–Smoluchowski equation critical opalescence
Awards	Haitinger Prize of the Vienna Academy of Sciences (1908) Order of Polonia Restituta (1936)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	University of Lviv Jagellonian University
Doctoral advisor	Franz S. Exner and Joseph Stefan
Doctoral students	Józef Patkowski Stanisław Loria Wacław Dziewulski
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Marian Smoluchowski (Polish: [ˈmarjan smɔluˈxɔfski]; 28 May 1872 – 5 September 1917) was a Polish physicist who worked in the territories of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was a pioneer of statistical physics and made significant contributions to the theory of Brownian motion and stochastic processes.^[1]

Smoluchowski graduated in physics from the University of Vienna in 1895 before becoming a privatdozent at the University of Lemberg three years later. In 1913, he was appointed the chair of the Faculty of Experimental Physics at the Jagellonian University in Kraków. He is known for the Smoluchowski equation, Einstein–Smoluchowski relation and Feynman–Smoluchowski ratchet.