Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
Physicist, Academic
1796 – 1832
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Who was Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot?
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot was a French military engineer and physicist, often described as the "father of thermodynamics". In his only publication, the 1824 monograph Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire, Carnot gave the first successful theory of the maximum efficiency of heat engines. Carnot's work attracted little attention during his lifetime, but it was later used by Rudolf Clausius and Lord Kelvin to formalize the second law of thermodynamics and define the concept of entropy.
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- Born
- Jun 1, 1796
Luxembourg Palace - Also known as
- Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot
- Parents
- Siblings
- Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Education
- École Polytechnique
- Died
- Aug 24, 1832
Paris
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on July 23, 2013
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