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He showed empirically, in 1879, that total radiation from a blackbody is proportional to the fourth power of its absolute temperature. Boltzmann, one of his students, showed in 1884 that this Stefan-Boltzmann law could be demonstrated mathematically. Stefan then applied it to determine the approximate temperature of the surface of the Sun. He also did important work on heat conduction in fluids and the kinetic theory of heat.
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Tell me about Stefan's work in Quantum Mechanics
There is a Crater Stefan on the moon (named after this mathematician). You can see a list of lunar features named after mathematicians.
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