Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 192 years ago |
Date of birth | June 1,1796 |
Zodiac sign | Gemini |
Born | Petit Luxembourg |
Date of died | August 24,1832 |
Died | Ivry-sur-Seine |
France | |
Parents | Lazare Carnot |
Known for | Carnot cycle |
Exergy efficiency | |
Carnot's theorem | |
Carnot heat engine | |
Carnot cycle; Carnot efficiency; Carnot theorem; Carnot heat engine | |
Job | Engineer |
Physicist | |
Mathematician | |
Education | Lycée Charlemagne |
École Polytechnique | |
University of Paris | |
Collège de France | |
Charlemagne High School | |
Books | Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire |
Reflections on the Motive Power of Heat and on Machines Fitted to Develop that Power | |
The Second Law of Thermodynamics: Memoirs by Carnot, Clausius, and Thomson | |
Influenc | Émile Clapeyron; Rudolf Clausius; Lord Kelvin |
Siblings | Hippolyte Carnot |
Academic advisor | André-Marie Ampère |
François Arago | |
Siméon Denis Poisson | |
Uncles | Joseph-François-Claude Carnot |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 1479537 |
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot Life story
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot was a French mechanical engineer in the French Army, military scientist and physicist, often described as the "father of thermodynamics".