Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis 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 for the transfer of energy by a force acting through a distance, and he prefixed the factor +1⁄2 to Leibniz's concept of vis viva, thus specifying today's kinetic energy.
Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, French mathematician and engineer (died 1843)
On May 21, in the year 1792, Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, French mathematician and engineer (died 1843). This event is recorded as a Notable Births event in the history of May 21, one of 476 recorded events on this date across all of history.
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