Kinetic energy, historical evolution

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Sec also Carnot, Nicolas Leonard Sadi Clausins, Rudolf Julius Emmanuel Culture and Energy Usage Ethical and Moral Aspects of Energy Use Gibbs, Jonah Willard Industiy and Business, History of Energy Use and Joule, James Prescott Kinetic Energy, Historical Evolution of the Use of Mayer, Julius Robert von Refining, History of Thomson, William Watt, James. 

A similar slow evolution from energy to entropy with a final synthesis of both concepts can also be observed in the historical development of chemical kinetics. The energy factor was first pointed out by Arrhenius (1889) when he explained the temperature effect on reaction rates. But in spite of the early work of Kohnstamm and Scheffer (1911) who introduced the idea of activation entropy, the importance of entropy was generally recognized only after Eyring (1935) formulated clearly the thermodynamic treatment of the transition state method. 

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