PEOPLE

Richard C. Tolman

BIRTH DATE:  3/4/1881
DEATH DATE:  9/5/48
CRAFT:  Mathematics
NATIONALITY:  American
PROFESSION:  mathematical physicist and physical chemist and an authority on statistical mechanics.
TRAVELS:  In 1917, he identified Tolman's paradox regarding a tachyonic antitelephone, which is a hypothetical device in theoretical physics that could be used to send signals into one's own past.
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