Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
French physicist, the "father of thermodynamics" (1796–1832)
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French engineer who dropped one book in 1824—Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire—and accidentally founded the theory of heat engine efficiency. That singular essay became the blueprint for thermodynamics, which is basically all he's remembered for.
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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 of the maximum efficiency of heat engines.
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