Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron

Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (26 February 1799 - 28 January 1864) was a French engineer and physicist, one of the founders of thermodynamics.

Benoit Paul Émile Clapeyron

Work

Thermodynamics

In 1834, he made his first contribution to the creation of modern thermodynamics by publishing a report entitled the Driving force of the heat (Puissance motrice de la chaleur), in which it developed the work of the physicist Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, deceased two years before. Though Carnot had developed a compelling analysis of a generalised heat engine, he had employed the clumsy and already unfashionable caloric theory.

Publications

• Clapeyron E. (1834), Puissance motrice de la chaleur, Journal de l'École Royale Polytechnique, Vingt-troisième cahier, Tome XIV, 153-190.

Honors

• Member of the Académie des Sciences, (1858).
• The Rue Clapeyron in Paris' 8th arrondissement is named for him.
• He is one of The 72 names on the Eiffel Tower.

See also

• Clapeyron's theorem (elasticity)
• Ideal Gas Law

Vanjski linkovi

• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews CS1 održavanje: nepreporučeni parametar (link).
• A modern version of Clapeyron's graph as a java applet