Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot Death Anniversary

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Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot died on 24 August, 1832

French military engineer and physicist regarded as the father of thermodynamics. His first successful theory of maximum efficiency of heat engines laid the foundations of the field and led to the development of the second law of thermodynamics by Rudolf Clausius and Lord Kelvin.