Charles Cagniard de la Tour
Charles Cagniard de Latour (born March 31, 1777 in Paris , † July 5, 1859 there ) was a French engineer and physicist .
He attended the École polytechnique , where he trained as an engineer. In 1818 he was appointed baron .
The siren is one of his numerous inventions .
In 1822 he discovered the phenomenon of supercritical fluids: He was able to prove the existence of a critical temperature above which the liquid / gaseous phase boundary of a liquid enclosed in a pressure vessel disappears (see: Critical point (thermodynamics) , supercritical water ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andreas Pfennig: Thermodynamics of the mixtures . Springer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-540-02776-9 , pp. 7-8.
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| SURNAME | Cagniard de la Tour, Charles |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cagniard de Latour, Charles |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French engineer and physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 31, 1777 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 5, 1859 |
| Place of death | Paris |