Alexis Thérèse Petit, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French physicist
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Place of Birth: Vesoul, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France
About Alexis Thérèse Petit
- Alexis Thérèse Petit (French: [p?ti]; 2 October 1791, Vesoul, Haute-Saône – 21 June 1820, Paris) was a French physicist. Petit is known for his work on the efficiencies of air- and steam-engines, published in 1818 (Mémoire sur l’emploi du principe des forces vives dans le calcul des machines).
- His well-known discussions with the French physicist Sadi Carnot, founder of thermodynamics, may have stimulated Carnot in his reflexions on heat engines and thermodynamic efficiency.
- The Dulong–Petit law (1819) is named after him and his collaborator Pierre Louis Dulong.
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