Francois Massieu
French engineer
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| Intro | French engineer | ||||
| Places | France | ||||
| was | Engineer Mathematician | ||||
| Work field | Engineering Mathematics | ||||
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| Birth | 4 August 1832, Vatteville-la-Rue, France | ||||
| Death | 5 February 1896Paris, France (aged 63 years) | ||||
| Star sign | Leo | ||||
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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.