- Jean Claude Eugène Péclet
Jean Claude Eugène Péclet (
February 10 ,1793 -December 6 ,1857 ) was a Frenchphysicist .He was born in
Besançon ,France .Péclet became, in 1812, one of the first students of the
École Normale inParis with Gay-Lussac and Dulong being his professors. In 1816, he was elected professor at theCollège de Marseille and taughtphysical sciences there until 1827. Being nominated "maître de conférences " at the École Normale, he returned to Paris. In 1829, he became a professor of physics at the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures that was being founded by the businessmanAlphonse Lavallée , by Péclet, and by three other scientists,Philippe Benoît ,Jean-Baptiste Dumas andThéodore Olivier . His salary was then 3000 Francs per year, plus a share of the profits of this private engineering school. In 1840, Péclet became inspecteur général de l'instruction publique.The
Péclet number is named after him.He died in
Paris .Books by J.C.E. Péclet
* [http://cnum.cnam.fr/CGI/redir.cgi?8KE66 Traité de l'éclairage ] (De Malher et Cie, Paris, 1827)
* [http://gallica.bnf.fr/notice?N=FRBNF37284306 Traité élémentaire de physique. Tome premier] (Hachette, Paris, 1838)
* [http://gallica.bnf.fr/notice?N=FRBNF37284310 Traité élémentaire de physique. Tome second ] (Hachette, Paris, 1838)
* [http://gallica.bnf.fr/notice?N=FRBNF37284311 Traité élémentaire de physique. Planches] (Hachette, Paris, 1838)
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=z4QDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=%22Jean+Claude+Eug%C3%A8ne+P%C3%A9clet%22&hl=fr#PPP9,M1 Traité de la chaleur considérée dans ses applications.] (Masson, Paris, 1861, 3rd edition)* [http://gallica.bnf.fr/notice?N=FRBNF37256953 Traité de la chaleur considérée dans ses applications. Tome premier] (Masson, Paris, 1878, 4th edition)
* [http://gallica.bnf.fr/notice?N=FRBNF37256956 Traité de la chaleur considérée dans ses applications. Tome deuxième] (Masson, Paris, 1878, 4th edition)
* [http://gallica.bnf.fr/notice?N=FRBNF37256960 Traité de la chaleur considérée dans ses applications. Tome troisième] (Masson, Paris, 1878, 4th edition)* [http://books.google.com/books?id=VsIDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=%22Jean+Claude+Eug%C3%A8ne+P%C3%A9clet%22&hl=fr#PPP7,M1 Traité complet des propriétés, de la préparation et de l'emploi des matières tinctoriales ] by J. Ch. Leuchs with revisions by J. C. E. Péclet (De Malher et Cie, Paris, 1829)
External links
* [http://www.ecp.fr/fr/A_ecp/A4_histoire/A4a_fondation_histoire.htm Web site of Ecole Centrale, with a Picture of JCE Peclet]
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