Henry Darcy
French engineer
Henry Philibert Gaspard Darcy was a French engineer who made several important contributions to hydraulics, including Darcy’s law for flow in porous media. Wikipedia
Born: June 10, 1803, Dijon, France
Died: January 3, 1858 (age 54 years), Paris, France
Education: École Polytechnique and École des ponts ParisTech
Books: Henry P.G. Darcy and Other Pioneers in Hydraulics: Contributions in Celebration of the 200th Birthday of Henry Philibert Gaspard Darcy, June 23-26, 2003, Philadelphia, PA and The Public Fountains of the City of Dijon: Exposition and Application of Principles to Follow and Formulas to Use in Questions of Water Distribution : the Book Ends with an Appendix on Water Supplies of Several Cities' Water Filtration and the Manufacture of Cast Iron, Lead, and Sheet Metal and Bitumen Pipes
Award: Legion of Honour
Parents: Jacques Lazare Gaspard and Agathe Angelique Serdet
Known for: Darcy's law; Darcy–Weisbach equation