Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis
French mathematician, mechanical engineer, and scientist (1792–1843)
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French mathematician who got his name attached to that spinning-planet-weather thing—the Coriolis effect. Also coined "work" in physics and locked down the formula for kinetic energy. Basically made rotating frames of reference way less mysterious.
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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 Leibniz's concept of vis viva, thus specifying today's kinetic energy.
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