Gustave Gaspard Coriolis (21.05.1792- 19.09.1843) was a French physicist and engineer and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1836). He was born in Paris. He studied at the École Polytechnique, where he worked (from 1816 as a teacher and from 1838 as director).
His research was in the field of mechanics. Independently of J. Poncelet he introduced the concept of “work” into mechanics in 1826 and, starting from it, formulated the theorem of “living” forces. He took half the product of the mass and the square of the velocity as the measure of the “living” force. He showed (1829) that in the complex motion of a point, when the moving frame of reference is not displaced translationally, an additional acceleration arises (the Coriolis acceleration), which is caused by an inertial force due to the effect of the rotation of the moving frame of reference on the relative motion of the point (the Coriolis force). On this basis he developed the theory of relative motion in 1835. Coriolis's work played a large part in the creation of the dynamics of machines. He discovered the phenomenon of creep.