Adrien Auzout

Adrien Auzout

male, deceased (1691)
Astronomer, parabola, craters of the Moon named after them, micrometer, Académie royale des sciences, parabolic
Adrien Auzout was a French astronomer. He was born in Rouen, France, the son of a clerk in the court of Rouen. His educational background is...

Jean-Baptiste du Hamel

deceased (1706)
logic, French, philosopher, Académie royale des sciences, De consensu Veteris et Novae Philosophiae, De Corporis affectionibus
Jean-Baptiste du Hamel (11 June 1624-6 August 1706) was a notable French natural philosopher of the later seventeenth century, and secretary of the...
Pierre Varignon

Pierre Varignon

male, deceased (1722)
l'Hôpital, Statics, Académie royale des sciences, Bernoulli, Berlin Academy, Collège Royal…Collège des Quatre-Nations
Pierre Varignon was a French mathematician. Pierre Varignon was educated at the Jesuit College in Caen. After further studies at the University of...
Jakob Hermann

Jakob Hermann

male, deceased (1733)
mathematician, Swiss, Académie royale des sciences, classical mechanics, Laplace-Runge-Lenz vector, Jacob Bernoulli
Jakob Hermann (16 July 1678 - 11 July 1733) was a mathematician who worked on problems in classical mechanics. He appears to have been the first to...

Antoine-Jean Amelot de Chaillou

male, deceased (1795)
French, politician, Intendant, Maître des requêtes, Grand Conseil, Académie des sciences…Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, Académie royale des sciences
Antoine-Jean Amelot de Chaillou was a French politician. The son of Jean-Jacques Amelot de Chaillou and Marie Anne de Vougny, he held a number of...