100th anniversary of the Sackur–Tetrode equation

[fresh_42]

Because entropy and the often misled understanding of it shows up on PF on a regular basis, I thought it might be interesting to read about the history of how it all began.
(Sorry, there wasn't an abstract to paste in here. But it's only four pages anyway.)

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/andp.201300720/pdf

 

[DrClaude]

Tetrode was 17 at the time? Impressive!