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{{short description|Austrian meteorologist (1856-1920)}}
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| image = Max Margules.jpg
| caption = Max Margules in 1920
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1856|4|23}}
| 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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| workplaces = [[Austria]] [[Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics|ZAMG]] ([[Vienna]])<br />[[University of Vienna]]▼
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▲|workplaces = [[Austria]] [[Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics|ZAMG]] ([[Vienna]])<br />[[University of Vienna]]
| academic_advisors = [[Ludwig Boltzmann]]▼
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| known_for = [[Margules formula]]<br />[[Margules activity model]]<br>[[Duhem–Margules equation]]▼
▲|academic_advisors = [[Ludwig Boltzmann]]
| awards = Hann Medal of Acknowledgement (1919)▼
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▲|known_for = [[Margules formula]]<br />[[Margules activity model]]
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▲|awards = Hann Medal of Acknowledgement (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 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. 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.▼
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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 WWI led to a life in poverty. He contented himself with food coupons in the post WWI period. He developed [[edema|hunger edema]], which he refused to remedy and on the October 4, 1920 he died from starvation.▼
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.
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▲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
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
*Luftbewegungen in einer rotierenden Sphäroidschale bei zonaler Druckverteilung, ibid., Bd. 101/02, Abt. 2a,
*Vergleichung der Barogramme von einigen Orten rings um Wien, in: Meteorolog. Z., Bd. 14, 1897
*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
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*Exner, W., Max Margules. In: Meteorologische Zeitschrift 37, 1920
*Gold, E., Dr. Max Margules. In: Nature, Vol. 106, Issue 2661, S. 286-287 (1920)
*In honor contribution of Max Margules to thermodynamics. Journal of Phase Equilibria and Diffusion, Vol. 17, Nr. 1 /
*"Max Margules—A Cocktail of Meteorology and Thermodynamics",
==External links==
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