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{{Short description|French physicist (1793–1857)}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Jean Claude Eugène Péclet
| image = Eugène Péclet.jpg
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1793|2|10|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Besançon]], [[France]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1857|12|6|1793|2|10|df=yes}}
| death_place = Paris
|known_for         = [[Péclet number]]<br>[[Triboelectric effect|Triboelectricity]]<br>[[Radiant barrier]]
|work_institutions = [[École Centrale Paris]]<br>[[École Normale Supérieure]]
}}
'''Jean Claude Eugène Péclet''' (10 February 1793 – 6 December 1857) was a French [[physicist]].

He was born in [[Besançon]], [[France]].

Péclet became, in 1812, one of the first students of the [[École Normale]] in [[Paris]] with [[Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac|Gay-Lussac]] and [[Pierre Louis Dulong|Dulong]] being his professors. In 1816, he was elected professor at the [[Collège de Marseille]] and taught [[physical sciences]] there until 1827. Being nominated ''[[maître de conférences]]'' (tenured position) at the [[École Normale Supérieure]], he returned to Paris. In 1829, he became a professor of physics at the [[École Centrale Paris|École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures]] that was being founded by the businessman  [[Alphonse Lavallée]], by Péclet, and by two other scientists, [[Jean-Baptiste Dumas]] and [[Théodore Olivier]]. 
His salary was then 3000 Francs per year, plus a share of the profits of this private engineering school. 
In 1840, Péclet became inspecteur général de l'instruction publique.

The [[Péclet number]] is named after him. He was [[Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis|Coriolis]]'s brother-in-law.

He died in [[Paris]].

==Books by J.C.E. Péclet==
[[File:Peclet, Jean-Claude-Eugène – Traité de l'éclairage, 1827 – BEIC 758684.jpg|thumb|''Traité de l'éclairage'', 1827]]
* [http://cnum.cnam.fr/CGI/redir.cgi?8KE66 Traité de l'éclairage ] (De Malher et Cie, Paris, 1827)
* [http://gallica.bnf.fr/notice?N=FRBNF37284306 Traité élémentaire de physique. Tome premier] (Hachette, Paris, 1838)
* [http://gallica.bnf.fr/notice?N=FRBNF37284310 Traité élémentaire de physique. Tome second ] (Hachette, Paris, 1838)
* [http://gallica.bnf.fr/notice?N=FRBNF37284311 Traité élémentaire de physique.  Planches] (Hachette, Paris, 1838)
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=z4QDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=%22Jean+Claude+Eug%C3%A8ne+P%C3%A9clet%22&hl=fr#PPP9,M1 Traité de la chaleur considérée dans ses applications.] (Masson, Paris, 1861, 3rd edition)
* [http://gallica.bnf.fr/notice?N=FRBNF37256953 Traité de la chaleur considérée dans ses applications. Tome premier] (Masson, Paris, 1878, 4th edition) 
* [http://gallica.bnf.fr/notice?N=FRBNF37256956 Traité de la chaleur considérée dans ses applications. Tome deuxième] (Masson, Paris, 1878, 4th edition) 
* [http://gallica.bnf.fr/notice?N=FRBNF37256960 Traité de la chaleur considérée dans ses applications. Tome troisième]  (Masson, Paris, 1878, 4th edition) 
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=VsIDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=%22Jean+Claude+Eug%C3%A8ne+P%C3%A9clet%22&hl=fr#PPP7,M1 Traité complet des propriétés, de la préparation et de l'emploi des matières tinctoriales ] by J. Ch. Leuchs with revisions by J. C. E. Péclet (De Malher et Cie, Paris, 1829)

==External links==
* [http://www.ecp.fr/fr/A_ecp/A4_histoire/A4a_fondation_histoire.htm Web site of Ecole Centrale, with a Picture of JCE Peclet]

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[[Category:French fluid dynamicists]]
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