Question: This thought experiment about an apparent perpetual motion machine was popularized by an American physicist who put out a lecture series concerning the nature of the laws of physics that was later recorded and published into a book by which organization?
Sentence (from "Brownian ratchet"): The simple machine, consisting of a tiny paddle wheel and a ratchet, appears to be an example of a Maxwell's demon, able to extract useful work from random fluctuations (heat) in a system at thermal equilibrium in violation of the second law of thermodynamics.
Relevant evidence: No