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'''Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot''' (Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (June 1, 1796 - August 24, 1832) was a
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'''Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot''' (June 1, 1796 - August 24, 1832) was a
French physicist and military engineer who gave the first successful
French physicist and military engineer who gave the first successful
theoretical account of heat engines, now known as the Carnot cycle,
theoretical account of heat engines, now known as the [[Carnot cycle]],
thereby laying the foundations of the second law of
thereby laying the foundations of the [[second law of thermodynamics]].  
thermodynamics. Technically, he is the world's first thermodynamicist,
==Publications==
being responsible for such concepts as Carnot efficiency, Carnot
#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)]
theorem, Carnot heat engine, [[Carnot cycle]] and others.
==References==
 
== External links ==
 
*[http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Carnot_Sadi.html MacTutor biography of  Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot]
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Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (June 1, 1796 - August 24, 1832) was a French physicist and military engineer who gave the first successful theoretical account of heat engines, now known as the Carnot cycle, thereby laying the foundations of the second law of thermodynamics.

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  1. Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot "Reflexions sur la Puissance Motrice de Feu et sur les Machines Propres a Développer cette Puissance" (1824), printed in Annales scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure Sér. 2, 1 pp. 393-457 (1872)

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