His later work was concerned with probability, and he wrote works like Mathematical Theory of Billiards.  
After being recommended to the Ecole Polytechnique by Cauchy, he did his greatest research with Jean Poncelet.  His later work was concerned with probability, and he wrote works like Mathematical Theory of Billiards.  He proposed the "dynamode," equal to 1,000 kilogram-meters, as a unit of work, and in his treatise On Calculating the Effects of Machines he was the first to use the terms "kinetic energy" and "work."  However, he's best known for the axiom he offered after a study of the movement of tornadoes and hurricanes.  FTP, name this French scientist whose namesake effect describes the hemispherically-dependant deflection of an object moving above the earth.
After being recommended to the Ecole Polytechnique by Cauchy, he did his greatest research with Jean Poncelet.  
Gustave-Gaspard de Coriolis