(
Gaspard-)
Gustave de Coriolis (21 May 1792 – 19 September 1843) 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 coin the term "
work" for the transfer of energy by a force acting through a distance.