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Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot

1796 - 1832

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Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (French: [nikɔla leɔnaʁ sadi kaʁno]; 1 June 1796 – 24 August 1832) was a French military engineer and physicist. A graduate of the École polytechnique, Carnot served as an officer in the Engineering Arm (le génie) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot is the 7th most popular engineer (down from 6th in 2019), the 254th most popular biography from France (down from 249th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Engineer.

Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot was a French physicist and engineer. He is most famous for his work on the Carnot cycle, which is a thermodynamic cycle that describes the conversion of heat into work.

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Among engineers, Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot ranks 7 out of 389. Before him are Gustave Eiffel, Gottlieb Daimler, Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Mikhail Kalashnikov, Zhuge Liang, and Wernher von Braun. After him are William John Macquorn Rankine, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Alexei Kosygin, Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, and José Echegaray.

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Among people born in 1796, Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot ranks 3. Before him are Nicholas I of Russia, and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. After him are Princess Charlotte of Wales, Adolphe Quetelet, Aloys II, Prince of Liechtenstein, Michael Thonet, Franz Berwald, Caroline Amalie of Augustenburg, Asher Brown Durand, Jakob Steiner, and Walter Hunt. Among people deceased in 1832, Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot ranks 8. Before him are Napoleon II, Évariste Galois, Jean-François Champollion, Walter Scott, Jeremy Bentham, and Georges Cuvier. After him are Rasmus Rask, Muzio Clementi, Jean-Baptiste Say, Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Queen of Sardinia, Princess Maria Anna of Saxony, and Princess Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt.

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In France

Among people born in France, Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot ranks 254 out of 6,770. Before him are Roger Martin du Gard (1881), Alfred Dreyfus (1859), Camille Claudel (1864), Henri Moissan (1852), Georges Cuvier (1769), and John II of France (1319). After him are Nadar (1820), Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894), Arsène Wenger (1949), Louis VI of France (1081), Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900), and François Truffaut (1932).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot ranks 2. Before him are Gustave Eiffel (1832). After him are Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (1633), André Citroën (1878), Villard de Honnecourt (1200), Marcel Dassault (1892), Marcel Renault (1872), Henri Farman (1874), Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt (1240), Paul Cornu (1881), André Courrèges (1923), and François Laurent d'Arlandes (1742).

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