Historedia
Person

Josef Stefan

Events
1
Episodes
2
Years
1877–1879

Every event in Historedia whose sources name Josef Stefan, with the role they cite and all of that event’s episodes. This is not a biography, and mentions are grouped by name, so two people with the same name can share this page.

Events and episodes

  1. Jozef Stefan discovers the Stefan–Boltzmann law

    1877–1879

    Role: Empirical Deriver

    1. 1877 · Vienna Academy of SciencesEmpirical Deduction of Fourth Power Relationship

      Josef Stefan deduced the proportionality of thermal radiation to the fourth power of absolute temperature in 1877, based on Tyndall's experimental measurements.

    2. 1879 · ViennaOrigin of Stefan's Law

      Josef Stefan is best known for originating Stefan's law in 1879, stating that total radiation from a black body is proportional to the fourth power of its thermodynamic temperature.

Sources

  1. Stefan–Boltzmann law Wikipedia, revision of 2026-10-08
  2. Josef Stefan Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-01