Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot

Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot

Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (French pronunciation: [nikɔla leɔnaʁ sadi kaʁno]; 1 June 1796 – 24 August 1832) was a French mechanical engineer in the French Army, military scientist and physicist, often described as the "father of thermodynamics". He published only one book, the Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire (Paris, 1824), in which he expressed the first successful theory of the maximum efficiency of heat engines and laid the foundations of the new discipline: thermodynamics. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

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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.