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French chemists

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Adolfo KaminskyPhotographer · PhotographyAdolfo Kaminsky (or Adolphe; 1 October 1925 – 9 January 2023) was an Argentine-born member of the French Resistance, specializing in the forgery of identity documents (IDs), and a…
Antoine LavoisierAuthor · BooksAntoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (26 August 17438 May 1794), also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution, was a French nobleman and chemist who was central to the 18th-century chemical…
Baron d'HolbachAuthor · BooksPaul Thiry, Baron d'Holbach (8 December 1723 – 21 January 1789), known as d'Holbach, was a Franco-German philosopher, encyclopedist and writer, who was a prominent figure in the French…
Bernard PalissyArtist · CeramicsBernard Palissy (bɛʁnaʁ palisi; c. 1589) was a French Huguenot potter, hydraulics engineer and craftsman, famous for having struggled for sixteen years to imitate Chinese porcelain.
Charles François de Cisternay du FayAuthor · BooksCharles François de Cisternay du Fay (14 September 1698 – 16 July 1739) was a French chemist and superintendent of the Jardin du Roi.
Charles Guillaume Alexandre BourgeoisEngraver · PrintsIllustration — C. G. A. Bourgeois; portrait by Louis-Léopold Boilly (c.1800)
Edmond BecquerelPhotographer · PhotographyAlexandre-Edmond Becquerel (lang; 24 March 1820 – 11 May 1891) was a French physicist who studied the solar spectrum, magnetism, electricity, and optics.
Frédéric Joliot-CuriePerson · Film memorabiliaJean Frédéric Joliot-Curie (lang; Joliot; 19 March 1900 – 14 August 1958) was a French chemist and physicist who received the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with his wife, Irène…
Gaston TissandierAuthor · BooksIllustration — Gaston Tissandier; photograph by Alphonse Liébert
Guillaume-François RouelleAuthor · BooksGuillaume François Rouelle (ɡijom fʁɑ̃swa ʁwɛl; 15 September 1703 – 3 August 1770) was a French chemist and apothecary.
Henri Victor RegnaultPhotographer · PhotographyHenri Victor Regnault ForMemRS (ɑ̃ʁi viktɔʁ ʁəɲo; 21 July 1810 – 19 January 1878) was a French chemist and physicist best known for his careful measurements of the thermal properties of…
Jacques BergierAuthor · BooksIllustration — Image of Jacques Bergier
Jean Henri HassenfratzAuthor · BooksIllustration — Portrait of Jean-Henri Hassenfratz
Jean-Baptiste de LamarckAuthor · BooksJean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck, was a French naturalist, biologist, academic, and soldier.
Louis DaguerreDesigner · DesignLouis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (lang; 18 November 1787 – 10 July 1851) was a French scientist, artist and photographer.
Louis FiguierAuthor · BooksIllustration — Louis Figuier
Louis LumièrePerson · Film memorabiliaLouis Jean Lumière (5 October 1864 – 6 June 1948) was a French engineer and industrialist who played a key role in the development of photography and cinema.
Louis-Auguste BissonDesigner · DesignLouis-Auguste Bisson (lang; 1814–1876) was a 19th-century French photographer.
Marie-Geneviève-Charlotte Thiroux d'ArconvilleIllustrator · IllustrationMarie Geneviève Charlotte Thiroux d'Arconville (née Darlus, also known as la présidente Thiroux d’Arconville and Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville) (17 October 1720 – 23 December 1805), was a…
Nicolas-Jacques ContéArtist · PaintingsNicolas-Jacques Conté (4 August 1755 – 6 December 1805) was a French inventor of the modern pencil.
Sergei Prokudin-GorskiiPhotographer · PhotographySergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Прокудин-Горский, IPA: [sʲɪrˈɡʲej mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ prɐˈkudʲɪn ˈɡorskʲɪj]; August 30 [O.S.

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