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The kinetic theory of gases was proposed by J. Clerk Maxwell [34, 35] and L. Boltzmann [5] in the second half of the XIXth century. Because the existence of atoms, on which kinetic theory rested, remained controversial for some time, it was not until many years later, in the XXth century, that the tools of kinetic theory became of common use in various branches of physics such as neutron transport, radiative transfer, plasma and semiconductor physics, etc.
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Golse, F. (2012). Recent Results on the Periodic Lorentz Gas. In: Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations. Advanced Courses in Mathematics - CRM Barcelona. Springer, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-0191-1_2
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