Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis

Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis
Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis
Born	21 May 1792 (1792-05-21) Paris, France
Died	19 September 1843 (1843-09-20) (aged 51) Paris, France
Nationality	French
Alma mater	École Polytechnique
Known for	Coriolis effect Differential analyser Integraph Kinetic energy
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics, Physics
Institutions	École Centrale Paris École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées École Polytechnique

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 ½ to Leibniz's concept of vis viva, thus specifying today's kinetic energy.^[1]