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French physicists

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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…
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 Étienne Louis CamusAuthor · BooksCharles Étienne Louis Camus (23 August 1699 – 2 February 1768), was a French mathematician and mechanician who was born in Crécy-en-Brie, near Meaux in the province of Île-de-France.
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)
Cornelis Rudolphus Theodorus KrayenhoffAuthor · Maps and atlasesCorneli(u)s Rudolphus Theodorus, Baron Krayenhoff (Nijmegen, 2 June 1758 – Nijmegen, 24 November 1840) was a physicist, artist, general, hydraulic engineer, cartographer and – against his…
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.
Émile ReynaudPhotographer · PhotographyCharles-Émile Reynaud (8 December 1844 – 9 January 1918) was a French inventor, responsible for the praxinoscope (an animation device patented in 1877 that improved on the zoetrope) and was…
François AragoAuthor · BooksDominique François Jean Arago (Domènec Francesc Joan Aragó), known simply as François Arago (lang; Francesc Aragó;
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…
Gabriel LippmannPhotographer · PhotographyJonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann (16 August 1845 – 12 July 1921) was a French applied physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1908 for his invention of the Lippmann plate, a…
Gaston BachelardAuthor · BooksGaston Louis Pierre Bachelard (lang; 27 June 1884 – 16 October 1962) was a French philosopher.[8] He made contributions in the fields of poetics and the philosophy of science.
Gaston TissandierAuthor · BooksIllustration — Gaston Tissandier; photograph by Alphonse Liébert
Henri PoincaréAuthor · BooksJules Henri Poincaré (29 April 185417 July 1912) was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science.
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…
Jean Henri HassenfratzAuthor · BooksIllustration — Portrait of Jean-Henri Hassenfratz
Joseph-Louis LagrangeAuthor · BooksJoseph-Louis Lagrange (born Giuseppe Luigi Lagrangia or Giuseppe Ludovico De la Grange Tournier;
Joseph-Nicolas DelisleAuthor · Maps and atlasesJoseph-Nicolas Delisle (lang; 4 April 1688 – 11 September 1768) was a French astronomer and cartographer.
Louis-François-Clement BreguetArtist · WatchesLouis Clément François Breguet (22 December 1804 – 27 October 1883) was a French physicist and watchmaker, noted for his work in the early days of telegraphy.
Melchisédech ThévenotAuthor · Maps and atlasesMelchisédech Thévenot was a French cartographer, librarian, diplomat, writer and physicist (1620–1692). He was born in Paris and died in Issy-les-Moulineaux.
Pierre MéchainAuthor · Maps and atlasesPierre François André Méchain (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ fʁɑ̃swa ɑ̃dʁe meʃɛ̃]; 16 August 1744 – 20 September 1804) was a French astronomer and surveyor who, with Charles Messier, was a…
Pierre-Simon LaplaceAuthor · BooksPierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace (23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827) was a French polymath, a scholar whose work has been instrumental in the fields of physics, astronomy, mathematics,…
René DescartesAuthor · BooksRené Descartes (day-KART, also DAY-kart; French: [ʁəne dekaʁt]; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French polymath, active across philosophy, including metaphysics, epistemology,…

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