UC Santa CruzSanta Cruz, California, USA August 8, 2005 The familiar thermocouple is a simple, reliable temperature sensor. The underlying principles caught the attention of Boltzmann and Kelvin and sorting out the physics led to a Nobel Prize (Onsager, 1968). Further principles established in the 1950s and 1960s, notably by Ioffe in Russia as well as in the US, enabled these ‘sensors’ to do work in their own right, from cooling beer to powering spacecraft such as Voyager and Galileo. The past decade has witnessed a new generation of scientific ideas, some of which may extend their utility to mainstream applications. This presentation will briefly outline historical developments and how they connect to more recent developments
CY - Santa Cruz, California, USA DA - 2005/// LA - eng M3 - Presentation N2 -UC Santa CruzSanta Cruz, California, USA August 8, 2005 The familiar thermocouple is a simple, reliable temperature sensor. The underlying principles caught the attention of Boltzmann and Kelvin and sorting out the physics led to a Nobel Prize (Onsager, 1968). Further principles established in the 1950s and 1960s, notably by Ioffe in Russia as well as in the US, enabled these ‘sensors’ to do work in their own right, from cooling beer to powering spacecraft such as Voyager and Galileo. The past decade has witnessed a new generation of scientific ideas, some of which may extend their utility to mainstream applications. This presentation will briefly outline historical developments and how they connect to more recent developments
PP - Santa Cruz, California, USA PY - 2005 TI - Thermocouples: Boltzmann, Beer and Jupiter UR - https://cvining.com/system/files/articles/vining/presentations/20050809-Boltzmann-SantaCruz.pdf ER -