Coriolis force [SEP] discoverer or inventor
the Coriolis force appeared in an 1835 paper by French scientist Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, in connection with the theory of water wheels. Early in the 20th century, the term "Coriolis force" began to be used in connection with meteorology.
Newton's laws of motion describe the motion of an object in an inertial (non-accelerating) frame of reference. When Newton's laws are transformed to a rotating frame of reference, the Coriolis and centrifugal accelerations appear. When applied to massive objects, the respective forces
Macintosh (born 1766), Scottish inventor of a waterproof fabric.
- August 10 – Robert Adrain (born 1775), Irish American mathematician.
- September 11 – Joseph Nicollet (born 1786), French geographer, explorer, mathematician and astronomer.
- September 19 – Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis (born 1792), French mathematician and discoverer of the Coriolis effect.
- September 30 – Richard Harlan (born 1796), American zoologist.
- November 16 – Abraham Colles (born 1773),