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Nicolas Carnot
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot was a French military engineer and physicist. A graduate of the École polytechnique, Carnot served as an officer in the Engineering Arm of the French Army. He also pursued scientific studies, and in June 1824 published an essay titled Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire. In that book, which would be his only publication, Carnot developed the first successful theory…
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science · French physicist and engineer (1796–1832) · mathematician · physicist · military engineer · engineer · thermodynamicist · also Nicolas Carnot, Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, Sadi Carnot, Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot, Leonard Sadi Carnot, Carnot
Born 1 June 1796 · Died 24 August 1832 · Q181685
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1991· 1 entry
The minor planet 12289 was also named after Carnot
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1970· 1 entry
The International Astronomical Union named the lunar crater Carnot in his honor
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1892· 1 entry
Lord Kelvin referred to Carnot's essay as "an epoch-making gift to science"
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1887· 1 entry
Hippolyte's eldest son Marie François Sadi Carnot served as President of France from 1887 to 1894.
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1878· 2 entries
There is material indicating that Carnot had, by the spring of 1832, rejected the caloric theory and accepted the equivalence of heat and work
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When Carnot's essay had come to be widely recognized as a founding document of the new science of thermodynamics, Hippolyte sponsored the publication of a new edition that included a "Biographical notice on Sadi Carnot"
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1871· 1 entry
In the Annales Scientifiques of the École normale supérieure, and again by Gauthier-Villars in 1878 with the collaboration of Hippolyte Carnot
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1849· 1 entry
James Thomson applied Carnot's reasoning to the freezing of water (i
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1845· 1 entry
While visiting the Paris laboratory of Henri Regnault, but it was only at the end of 1848 that Thomson was able to read Carnot's original work, in a copy provided to him by Lewis Gordon
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1834· 3 entries
(two years after Carnot's death and ten years after the publication of his book) by the engineer and fellow polytechnicien Émile Clapeyron finally succeeded in calling attention to Carnot's work, which some years later w
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It became the object of a detailed commentary and explanation by another French engineer, Émile Clapeyron
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That engineers and scientists began to take an interest in Carnot's contributions
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1832· 1 entry
Died 1832-08-24.
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1828· 1 entry
Carnot is listed as "maker of steam engines"
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1816· 1 entry
Studied at École d'application de l'artillerie et du génie in Metz (1814–1816).
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1815· 1 entry
Lazare was forced into exile in the German city of Magdeburg
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1814· 2 entries
Studied at École polytechnique (1812–1814).
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And was admitted at the École d'application de l'artillerie et du génie ("School of Applied Artillery and Military Engineering") in Metz, where he completed a two-year course
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1812· 1 entry
Studied at Lycée Charlemagne (1811–1812).
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1811· 1 entry
At the age of 16 (the minimum allowed), Carnot became a cadet of the École polytechnique, where his classmates included the future mathematician Michel Chasles
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1801· 1 entry
In Saint-Omer and who would later become a prominent politician
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1796· 1 entry
Born 1796-06-01.
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