/sci/ - Science & Math

>Bullied massively due his discrete model
>This causes him to become an academic pariah and to off himself
>Plank literally copies his model and applies it to his experiment
>Gets massive recognition and becomes one of the most famous scientist of all time
>Boltzmann gets basically births quantum dynamics and stablishes the basics of classical ensembles (Fermi-Dirac and Bose Einstein stadistics are just variations of this)
>all his recognition is a constant that is composed of the universal gas constant and Avogadro's number
Is he one of the most tragic figures in the history of science? My feeling is he gets a fraction of the recognition that he deserves

>In 1904 at a physics conference most renowned physicists rejected Botlzmann's idea that atoms and molecules exist and are presupposed by his Kinetic theory of gases. He was not invited to a conference again.

>In 1905 Boltzmann corresponded extensively with the philosopher Franz Brentano with the hope of gaining a better mastery of philosophy so that he could better refute philosophical objections to the idea of atoms and molecules, but he became discouraged about this and failed.

>In the following year 1906 after failing to convince his colleagues he committed suicide in September by hanging himself