Charles Cagniard de la Tour

Charles Cagniard de Latour ( born March 31, 1777 Paris, † July 5, 1859 ) was a French engineer and physicist.

He attended the École polytechnique and trained there for the engineer. In 1818 he was appointed Baron.

Among his many inventions heard the siren.

In 1822 he discovered the phenomenon of supercritical fluids: He could prove the existence of a critical temperature above which the phase boundary liquid / gaseous one enclosed in a pressure vessel liquid disappears (see: Critical point (thermodynamics ), Supercritical water).

  • Frenchman
  • Inventor
  • Born in 1777
  • Died in 1859
  • Man
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