Mathematical physics represents the purest image that the view of nature may generate in the human mind; this image presents all the character of the product of art; it begets some unity, it is true and has the quality of sublimity; this image is to physical nature what music is to the thousand noises of which the air is full...
Belgian physicist (1872–1957)
Théophile Ernest de Donder (August 19, 1872 – May 11, 1957) was a Belgian mathematician and physicist famous for his 1923 work in developing correlations between the Newtonian concept of chemical affinity and the Gibbsian concept of free energy.
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Theophile De Donder
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Théophile Ernest de Donder
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Theophile Ernest de Donder
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