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Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
(; 1 June 1796 – 24 August 1832) was a French
military engineer
and
physicist
, often described as the "father of
thermodynamics
". In his only publication, the 1824 monograph
Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire
, Carnot gave the first successful theory of the maximum efficiency of
heat engines
. Carnot's work attracted little attention during his lifetime, but it was later used by
Rudolf Clausius
and
Lord Kelvin
to formalize the
second law of thermodynamics
and define the concept of
entropy
.
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