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| '''Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot''' (June 1, 1796 - August 24, 1832) was a
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| French physicist and military engineer who gave the first successful
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| theoretical account of heat engines, now known as the [[Carnot cycle]],
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| thereby laying the foundations of the [[second law of thermodynamics]].
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| ==Publications==
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| #Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot "Reflexions sur la Puissance Motrice de Feu et sur les Machines Propres a Développer cette Puissance" (1824), printed in [http://www.numdam.org/item?id=ASENS_1872_2_1__393_0 Annales scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure Sér. '''2''', 1 pp. 393-457 (1872)]
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| ==References==
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| == External links ==
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| *[http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Carnot_Sadi.html MacTutor biography of Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot]
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| [[Category: Classical thermodynamics]]
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