text: After a sampling of this scientist's works, you would conclude that he made important theoretical contributions to physics, chemistry, and mathematics.
full_question: After a sampling of this scientist's works, you would conclude that he made important theoretical contributions to physics, chemistry, and mathematics. Born in--and growing up throughout--Europe, he moved to America after a mustachioed fascist came to power, ending his career a couple of hours' drive from Yale University. Initially unaware of a predecessor's contributions in that field, he wrote three papers on statistical mechanics, published between 1902 and 1904.Though his work was almost entirely theoretical, the practical value of his contributions became evident with the development of industrial chemistry during the first half of the 20th century. In 1954, a year before one scientist's death, he was asked by an interviewer who were the greatest thinkers that he had known; his answer was this man. His second wife was his mother's sister's child. He also worked on the application of Maxwell's equations to problems in physical optics. His work related to temporal squishing and apples falling. He probably never reviewed a patent application from the man who invented modern vector calculus, although he called that man "the greatest mind in American history"
first_sentence: After a sampling of this scientist's works, you would conclude that he made important theoretical contributions to physics, chemistry, and mathematics.