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1796 – 1832Sadi Carnot (1796-1832)Died 24 August 1832, aged 36Carnot was a French physicist and military engineer whose 1824 analysis of heat engines founded the science of thermodynamics. His concept of an idealized heat cycle later underpinned the second law of thermodynamics. He died in Paris during the cholera epidemic that swept the city that year.