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Sadi Carnot was a French physicist and military engineer whose 1824 analysis of heat engines, Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire, is commonly dated as the start of thermodynamics as a field of study.

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1796 1
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Physics and engineering (thermodynamics) 1
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1. Sadi Carnot (Britannica)
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Thermodynamics (Wikipedia)
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