French engineer (1832–1896)
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.
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- Nivoit, "E." (1897). “Notice of the "Life." And Work of Mr. Massieu, Inspector General of Mines” (French → English), Annales des Mines, "9th Series," Vol. 11.
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