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This is essentially the same question that he asked 1.5 years ago:
And the answer I gave then still applies. If the following citations do
not suffice, please explain.
Clausius's father was named Carl E. Gottlieb [ref 2].
Clausius himself was called Rudolf Julius Emmanuel Clausius. No evidence
has yet been adduced suggesting he ever called himself anything else.
Respectable references I checked include:
1) Encyclopedia Britannica
2) World's Who's Who in Science
3) Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Another consistent data point is this:
At 08:14 AM 5/24/99 -0400, Bob Muir wrote:
>Asimov in his Biographical Encyclopedia of Science & Technology has a
>short recap of Clausius' work, but does not mention a name change.
The web page by Padgett is not sufficiently reliable IMHO, but even it says
our hero is "universally known as Clausius".
The DSB contains two pointers which I did not dereference, namely:
There is no biography of Clausius other than the short
sketch in _Allgemeine deutsche Biographie_, LV, 720-729, but
a recent article by Grete Ronge, "Die Zuricher Jahre des
Physikers Rudolf Clausius," in _Gesnerus_, 12 (1955), 73 108
includes some new information about his personal life.