1 June 1796 - 24 Aug 1832
French
Eldest son of Lazare Carnot, Sadi worked on
the mathematical theory of heat and helped start the modern theory of
thermodynamics. In 1824 he published the only work during his lifetime
which includes his description of the Carnot cycle. This work only became
well known after Clapeyron published an
analytic reformulation in 1834. It was incorporated into the thermodynamic
theory of Clausius and Thomson.