François Massieu
French engineer and mathematician
About François Massieu
Lived 1832 – 1896 (aged 63). François Massieu was a French engineer, mathematician, university teacher, physicist and thermodynamicist.
François Jacques Dominique Massieu (4 August 1832 – 5 February 1896) was a French thermodynamics engineer noted for his two 1869 characteristic functions, each of which known as a Massieu function (the first of which sometimes called free entropy), as cited by American engineer Willard Gibbs in his 1876 On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances.
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Who was François Massieu?
French engineer and mathematician (1832-1896)
When was François Massieu born?
François Massieu was born on 4 August 1832 in Vatteville-la-Rue.
When did François Massieu die?
François Massieu died on 5 February 1896 in Paris.
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François Massieu was an engineer, mathematician, university teacher, physicist and thermodynamicist.
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François Massieu was French.
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