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Carnot 1. Lazare (Nicolas Marguerite) , known as the Organizer of Victory. 1753--1823, French military engineer and administrator: organized the French Revolutionary army (1793--95) 2. Nicolas Léonard Sadi . 1796--1832, French physicist, whose work formed the basis for the second law of thermodynamics, enunciated in 1850; author of Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu (1824). How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| This French system designed by Lazare Nicolas Carnot and used by Napoleon was the forerunner to the contemporary "Western" army division structure. Dijon Municipal library, Fonds Carnot 8(21), "Memoire pour Toussaint Sirugue, contre Etienne Breton, tanneur, et de son autorite Anne Breton sa fille," 1721. Y-AB: No, entropy was defined by [early 19th century French physicist Nicolas Leonard] Sadi Carnot as the gradual transformation of a structure into a state of indifferentiation, the reduction of energy to zero. |
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