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Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot

1796 - 1832

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Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (French pronunciation: [nikɔla leɔnaʁ sadi kaʁno]; 1 June 1796 – 24 August 1832) was a French military engineer and physicist. A graduate of the École polytechnique, Carnot served as an officer in the Engineering Arm (le génie) of the French Army. He also pursued scientific studies and in June 1824 published an essay titled Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot has received more than 726,003 page views. His biography is available in 69 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot is the 6th most popular engineer, the 249th most popular biography from France (down from 234th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Engineer.

Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot was a French physicist and engineer. He is most famous for his work on the Carnot cycle, which is a thermodynamic cycle that describes the conversion of heat into work.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot ranks 6 out of 389. Before him are Gustave Eiffel, Gottlieb Daimler, Mikhail Kalashnikov, Zhuge Liang, and Wernher von Braun. After him are Frederick Winslow Taylor, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Sergei Korolev, Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, Umberto Nobile, and André Citroën.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1796, Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot ranks 3. Before him are Nicholas I of Russia, and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. After him are Adolphe Quetelet, Michael Thonet, Princess Charlotte of Wales, Franz Berwald, Caroline Amalie of Augustenburg, Jakob Steiner, Peter Fendi, Philipp Franz von Siebold, and Carl Loewe. Among people deceased in 1832, Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot ranks 8. Before him are Napoleon II, Jean-François Champollion, Évariste Galois, Walter Scott, Jeremy Bentham, and Georges Cuvier. After him are Jean-Baptiste Say, Muzio Clementi, Rasmus Rask, Friedrich Kuhlau, Princess Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Archduchess Marie Caroline of Austria.

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In France

Among people born in France, Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot ranks 249 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-Michel Jarre (1948), Simone Weil (1909), Berthe Morisot (1841), Oscar I of Sweden (1799), Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732), and Pope Callixtus II (1065). After him are Honoré Daumier (1808), Philip III of France (1245), Ferdinand Foch (1851), Pope Leo IX (1002), Georges Méliès (1861), and Serge Gainsbourg (1928).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot ranks 2. Before him are Gustave Eiffel (1832). After him are Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (1633), André Citroën (1878), Villard de Honnecourt (1200), Paul Cornu (1881), Marcel Dassault (1892), Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt (1240), Marcel Renault (1872), Henri Farman (1874), André Courrèges (1923), and Henry Darcy (1803).

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