Gustave Gaspard De Coriolis
1792-1843
French physicist who first derived the fictitious forces, known as the centrifugal and Coriolis forces, that appear to act on bodies in a rotating
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Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis was a French engineer and mathematician best known for his discovery of the Coriolis effect, or force, which has great significance in astrophysics, stellar dynamics, and t...
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