Nicolas Léonard Sadi

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Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot was a French physicist and engineer regarded as the father of thermodynamics for his foundational work on the theory of heat engines.

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Sadi Carnot 4
Nicolas Léonard Sadi canonical 1
Sadi Carnot (physicist) 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf French person
person
physicist
birthCountry France
birthDate 1796-06-01
birthPlace Paris
burialPlace Cimetière du Montparnasse NERFINISHED
causeOfDeath cholera
citizenship France
deathCountry France
deathDate 1832-08-24
deathPlace Paris
describedAs father of thermodynamics
developedConcept maximum efficiency of heat engines
reversible heat engine
educatedAt École Polytechnique NERFINISHED
École des Ponts et Chaussées NERFINISHED
employer French Army NERFINISHED
era 19th-century physics
familyName Carnot NERFINISHED
father Lazare Carnot NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork engineering
physics
thermodynamics
givenName Léonard NERFINISHED
Nicolas NERFINISHED
Sadi NERFINISHED
influenced Lord Kelvin NERFINISHED
Rudolf Clausius NERFINISHED
William Thomson NERFINISHED
thermodynamics as a discipline
Émile Clapeyron NERFINISHED
influencedBy Lazare Carnot NERFINISHED
knownFor Carnot cycle NERFINISHED
Carnot efficiency NERFINISHED
formulation of the second law of thermodynamics precursor
founding the theory of heat engines
languageOfWork French
nationality French
notableWork Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu NERFINISHED
occupation military engineer
publicationYear 1824
sibling Hippolyte Carnot NERFINISHED

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Carnot hasNotableBearer Nicolas Léonard Sadi
this entity surface form: Sadi Carnot
Carnot givenName Nicolas Léonard Sadi
subject surface form: Sadi Carnot
Hippolyte Carnot sibling Nicolas Léonard Sadi
this entity surface form: Sadi Carnot (physicist)
Jules Grévy succeededBy Nicolas Léonard Sadi
this entity surface form: Sadi Carnot
Carnot efficiency namedAfter Nicolas Léonard Sadi
this entity surface form: Sadi Carnot
On the Moving Force of Heat influencedBy Nicolas Léonard Sadi
this entity surface form: Sadi Carnot