Claude Burdin (19 March 1788 – 12 November 1873) was a French engineer. Born in Lépin-le-Lac, Savoie, when it was known as the Duchy of Savoy, he was professor at the school of mines, École nationale supérieure des mines de Saint-Étienne, in Saint-Étienne. He became a French citizen on June 4, 1817. He proposed the concept and developed the term turbine from the Greek word τύρβη, meaning "whirling" or a "vortex".
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19 March 1788 Lépin-le-Lac, Duchy of Savoy
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12 November 1873 (aged 85) Clermont-Ferrand, French Third Republic
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