The 19th-century physicist Ludwig Boltzmann stirred up controversy by proposing that scientists could make intelligent guesses about the behavior of atoms, which, though they moved randomly, and could be described by certain probabilistic generalizations.
In the 1900s, many illustrious scientists didn’t believe Artemis existed this may sound like a paradox. Today since the 20th century is after all the century of great discoveries on the atomic nature of the world from the electron to current experiments on elementary particles.
Yet prior to the tremendous progress of knowledge Ludwig Boltzmann an Austrian physicist unknown genius and pioneer of atom-ism had to struggle for nearly 40 years ,the final years of the 19th century to make his atomic vision of the world accepted. By the time his life was coming to an end he was indeed considered a great scientist the greatest within Austria.
This however didn’t seem to help. Boltzmann personality was complex and difficult to describe. He himself used to jestingly remind one that he was born during the night between shroud Tuesday and Ash Wednesday.
His moods could swing violently from being extremely happy for not too deeply depressed. Giovanni young Boltzmann used to be an enthusiast, but as the years went by due to personal problems and uncertainty about decisions regarding his career and possibly due to criticism of his scientific work, about which he felt very sensitively.
University of Vienna wrote a letter to inform the competent Minister that Boltzmann suffered from a severe form of neurasthenia and had to give up all scientific activities.
Ludwig Boltzmann was born in Vienna on the 20th of February 1844 the eldest child of a Viennese father of German origin and an Austrian.
He began his scientific career in 1863 at the age of 19, he enrolled at the University of Vienna as a physics and mathematics student receiving his PhD. Only three years later in 1866 in 1867, He became a lecturer at the physics Institute founded 14 years earlier by Christian Doppler.