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French engineer and physicist (–)

Claude-Louis Navier (born Claude Louis Marie Henri Navier; French:[klodlwimaʁiɑ̃ʁinavje]; 10 February – 21 August ) was a French Civil engineer, affiliated with the French government, and a physicist who specialized in continuum mechanics.

The Navier–Stokes equations refer eponymously to him, with George Gabriel Stokes.

Biography

After the death of his father in , Navier's mother left his education in the hands of his uncle Émiland Gauthey, an engineer with the Corps of Bridges and Roads(Corps des Ponts et Chaussées).

In , Navier enrolled at the École polytechnique, and in continued his studies at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, from which he graduated in He eventually succeeded his uncle as Inspecteur general at the Corps des Ponts et Chaussées.

He directed the construction of bridges at Choisy, Asnières and Argenteuil in the Department of the Seine, and built a footbridge to the Île de l