Died 1843-09-19.
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Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis
Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis was a French mathematician, mechanical engineer and scientist. He is best known for his work on the supplementary forces that are detected in a rotating frame of reference, leading to the Coriolis effect. He was the first to apply the term travail for the transfer of energy by a force acting through a distance, and he prefixed the factor +1⁄2 to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibni…
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science · French mathematician, mechanical engineer, and scientist · mathematician · physicist · engineer · university teacher · also Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, Gustave Coriolis, Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, Gustave Gaspard de Coriolis, Coriolis
Born 22 May 1792 · Died 19 September 1843 · Q202827
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1838· 1 entry
Succeeded Pierre Louis Dulong as Directeur des études (director of studies) in the École Polytechnique
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1836· 1 entry
Coriolis succeeded him in the chair of applied mechanics at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and to Navier's place in the Académie des Sciences
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1835· 1 entry
Published a mathematical work on collisions of spheres: Théorie Mathématique des Effets du Jeu de Billard, considered a classic on the subject
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1829· 1 entry
Coriolis published a textbook, Calcul de l'Effet des Machines ("Calculation of the Effect of Machines"), which presented mechanics in a way that could readily be applied by industry
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1811· 1 entry
Studied at École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (1810–1811).
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1810· 1 entry
Studied at École polytechnique (1808–1810).
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1808· 1 entry
Sat the entrance exam and was placed second of all the students entering that year, and in 1816, he became a tutor at the École Polytechnique, where he did experiments on friction and hydraulics
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1792· 1 entry
Born 1792-05-22.
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