Explanation

Around 1850 Rudolf Clausius and William Thomson (Kelvin) developed the first law of thermodynamics

The First Law of Thermodynamics states:

"that energy cannot be created or destroyed; it can only be converted from one form to another".

Additional information:

Sadi Carnot is called the "father of thermodynamics"

Rudolf Clausius and William Thomson (Kelvin) stated both the First Law and the Second Law of ThermodAround

The third law was developed by German chemist Walther Nernst from 1906 to 1912