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{{short description|Austrian meteorologist (1856-1920)}}
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| image = Max Margules.jpg
| caption = Max Margules in 1920
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| birth_place = [[Brody]], [[Galicia (Central Europe)|Galicia]],<br> [[Austrian Empire]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1920|10|4|1856|4|23}}
| death_place = [[Perchtoldsdorf]], [[Niederösterreich]]
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|residence citizenship = Austria, Germany
|citizenship fields = [[Meteorology]]
| workplaces = [[Austria]] [[Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics|ZAMG]] ([[Vienna]])<br />[[University of Vienna]]
|ethnicity = [[Jewish]]
|fields alma_mater = [[MeteorologyUniversity of Vienna]]
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|workplaces = [[Austria]] [[Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics|ZAMG]] ([[Vienna]])<br />[[University of Vienna]]
| academic_advisors = [[Ludwig Boltzmann]]
|alma_mater = [[University of Vienna]]
| notable_students =
|doctoral_advisor =
| known_for = [[Margules formula]]<br />[[Margules activity model]]<br>[[Duhem–Margules equation]]
|academic_advisors = [[Ludwig Boltzmann]]
| awards = Hann Medal of Acknowledgement&nbsp;(1919)
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'''Max Margules''' (April 23, 1856 – October 4, 1920) was an Austrian mathematician, physicist, and chemist.
'''Max Margules''' was a mathematician, physicist, and chemist. In 1877 he joined the Central Institute of Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG) in Vienna as a volunteer.<ref>[http://www.zamg.ac.at/about/history/index.php/ ZAMG = Central Institute of Meteorology in Vienna]</ref> After two years he left Vienna to study in Berlin for a year. He returned to Vienna and received his PhD in Electrodynamics. During his doctoral studies he was a [[Privatdozent]]: an unpaid position, but one which allowed him to lecture students. Students' fees gave him some income.
Later, administration offered this teaching job to someone else, which ended his academic career. In 1882 he returned to ZAMG. During this time he focused on electro- and hydrodynamic problems. In his free time he studied physical and physico-chemical problems. The [[Duhem–Margules equation]] and the [[Margules activity model|Margules' Gibbs free energy equation]] are examples of his free-time devotion. In 1900 his interest switched to meteorology and deployed his thermodynamic knowledge. This led to the [[Margules formula]], a formula for characterizing the slope of a front.<br>
In 1919 the Austrian Society for Meteorology awarded him the silver Hann Medal of Acknowledgement. Margules accepted the medal, but rejected the money. He rejected all attempts to make the last year of his life bearable. His small pension and the devaluation of the currency due to WW I led to a life in poverty. He contented himself with food coupons in the post WW-I period. He got [[edema|hunger edema]] and should be remedied. He refused to do this and on the 4th of October 1920 he died from starvation.
 
'''Max Margules''' wasbegan ahis mathematician,career physicist,in andresearch chemist.in In1877, 1877when he joined the Central Institute of Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG) in Vienna as a volunteer.<ref>[http://www.zamg.ac.at/about/history/index.php/ ZAMG = Central Institute of Meteorology in Vienna] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100131050212/http://www.zamg.ac.at/about/history/index.php |date=2010-01-31 }}</ref> After two years he left Vienna to study in Berlin for a year. He then returned to Vienna and received his PhD in Electrodynamics. During his doctoral studies he was a [[Privatdozent]]: an unpaid position, butfunded oneentirely whichby allowed him to lecture students. Students'student fees gave him some income.
Today [[Julius von Hann]], head of ZAMG in that time, and Max Margules are seen as theoretical pillars of meteorology.
 
Later, administration offered this teaching job to someone else after he refused to convert from Judaism to acquire the position, which ended his academic career. In 1882 he returned to ZAMG. During this time he focused on electro- and hydrodynamic problems.
 
Later, administration offered this teaching job to someone else, which ended his academic career. In 1882 he returned to ZAMG. During this time he focused on electro- and hydrodynamic problems. In his free time he studied physical and physico-chemical problems. The [[Duhem–Margules equation]] and the [[Margules activity model|Margules' Gibbs free energy equation]] are examples of his free-time devotion. In 1900 his interest switched to meteorology and deployedwhere he found great success by deploying his thermodynamic knowledge. This led to the [[Margules formula]], a formula for characterizing the slope of a front.<br> He dedicated his retirement to a new found interest in chemistry research, completely abandoning his meteorological studies.
 
In 1919 the Austrian Society for Meteorology awarded him the silver Hann Medal of Acknowledgement. Margules accepted the medal, but rejected the money. He rejected all attempts to make the last year of his life bearable. His small pension and the devaluation of the currency due to WWWorld War I led to a life in poverty. He contented himself with food coupons in the post WW-World War I period. HeAfter a period of starvation, he gotdeveloped [[edema|hunger edema]], which he refused to remedy and shouldon bethe remediedOctober 4, 1920 he died from starvation. HeHis refusedobituary noted that he was too prideful to doask thisfor assistance and onthat thehis 4thdeath ofwas a preventable tragedy.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Gold |first=E. |date=October 1920 he|title=Dr. diedMax fromMargules starvation|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/106286a0 |journal=Nature |language=en |volume=106 |issue=2661 |pages=286–287 |doi=10.1038/106286a0 |issn=1476-4687|doi-access=free }}</ref>
 
Margules' accomplishments are seen as the theoretical pillars of meteorology and he left a lasting legacy on the field of thermodynamics in his name-sake equations.
 
==Publications==
*Über die Schwingungen periodisch erwärmter Luft, in: Sbb. Wien, math. nat. Kl., Bd. 99, Abt. 2a, 1890<br>
*Luftbewegungen in einer rotierenden Sphäroidschale bei zonaler Druckverteilung, ibid., Bd. 101/02, Abt. 2a, 1892-93<br>1892–93
*Vergleichung der Barogramme von einigen Orten rings um Wien, in: Meteorolog. Z., Bd. 14, 1897<br>
*Material zum Studium der Druckverteilung und des Windes in NÖ, in: Jhb. der k. k. Centralanstalt für Meteorol. und Erdmagnetismus in Wien, NF, Bd. 35, 1900; Bd. 37, 1902<br>
*Temperaturstufen in NÖ im Winter 1898/99, ibid., Bd. 36, 1901<br>
*Über den Arbeitswert einer Luftdruckverteilung und die Erhaltung der Druckunterschiede, in: Denkschriften Wien, math.-nat. Kl., Bd. 73, 1901<br>
*Über rasche Erwärmungen, in: Meteorolog. Z., Bd. 20, 1903<br>
*Über Temperaturschwankungen auf hohen Bergen, ibid., Bd. 20, 1903<br>
*Über die Energie der Stürme, in: Jhb. der k. k. Centralanstalt für Meteorol. und Erdmagnetismus in Wien, NF, Bd. 42, 1905<br>
*Über Temperaturschichtung in stationär bewegter und in ruhender Luft, in: Meteorolog. Z., Hann-Bd., 1906<br>
*Über die Zusammensetzung der gesättigten Dämpfe von Mischungen. Sitzb. der math.-nat. Classe der kaiserlichen
*Akademie der Wissenschaften Wien 104, 1885<br>
*Über die Änderung des vertikalen Temperaturgefälles durch Zusammendrückung oder Ausbreitung einer Luftmasse, ibid., Bd. 23, 1906<br>
*Zur Sturmtheorie, ibid., Bd. 23, 1906; etc.
 
==Biography==
*Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon ÖBL, S. 84f<br>
*Neue Deutsche Biographie NDB, Bd. 16, S. 169; Familienartikel, 170f<br>
*Exner, W., Max Margules. In: Meteorologische Zeitschrift 37, 1920<br>
*Gold, E., Dr. Max Margules. In: Nature, Vol. 106, Issue 2661, S. 286-287 (1920)<br>
*In honor contribution of Max Margules to thermodynamics. Journal of Phase Equilibria and Diffusion, Vol. 17, Nr. 1 / Jan.January 1996. Springer, Boston<br>
*"Max Margules—A Cocktail of Meteorology and Thermodynamics", Jaime Wisniak, Journal of Phase Equilibria Vol. 24 No. 2 2003, p103-109
 
==External links==
* Quotation of Margules on PSU website [http://www.ems.psu.edu/~bannon/Dynamics.html Quotation of Margules on PSU website]
* Life and work. [http://maths.ucd.ie/~plynch/Publications/MTERF-TwoCol.pdf Life and work]
 
==References==
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| DATE OF DEATH =4 October 1920
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