Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis
French mathematician, mechanical engineer, and scientist (1792–1843)
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FranceHe named the ghost force that turns hurricanes and makes long-range artillery miss — the effect you feel when you try to walk straight on a spinning carousel, except the carousel is Earth.
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Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis was born in Paris on 21 May 1792, trained as a mathematician and mechanical engineer, and spent his career mapping the invisible mechanics of rotating systems. He was the first to call energy transfer through distance "work" — the term still used in physics — and he corrected Leibniz's vis viva by adding the factor of one-half, giving us the modern formula for kinetic energy. His deeper contribution came from analyzing forces that appear only to observers on spinning platforms: the supplementary accelerations now central to meteorology, oceanography, and ballistics.…
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