Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis
1792 – 1843 · aged 51
French mathematician, mechanical engineer, and scientist (1792–1843)
- Born
- 22 May 1792 · Paris
- Died
- 19 Sept 1843 · Paris
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- 22 May 1792BornBorn in Paris
- 19 Sept 1843DiedDied in Paris
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- 1814 – 1815Congress of Vienna
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Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (French: [ɡaspaʁ ɡystav də kɔʁjɔlis]; 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 apply the term travail (translated as "work") for the transfer of energy by a force acting through a distance, and he prefixed the factor +1⁄2 to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's concept of vis viva, thus specifying today's kinetic energy.
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