"French Academy of Sciences"

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck male, deceased (1829): Pomeranian War, Society of Jesus, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Seven Years' War, FrenchAcademyofSciences, Jardin des Plantes…inheritance of acquired traits, French; Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck (August 1, 1744 - December 28, 1829) was a French soldier, naturalist, academic and an...

Hippolyte Bayard male, deceased (1887): photographer, French, FrenchAcademyofSciences, daguerreotype, Self Portrait as a Drowned Man; Hippolyte Bayard (January 20 1801 - May 14 1887) was one of the earliest photographers in the history of photography, inventing his own photography...

Hubert Curien male, deceased (2005): Pierre-Louis Curien, Huygens probe, COSPAR, From Lorraine, FrenchAcademyofSciences, Cornimont…Member of Academia Europaea, French, Alumni of the École Normale Supérieure; Hubert Curien was a French physicist and a key figure in European science politics, as the President of CERN (1994-1996), the first chairman of the...

Henri Cartan male, 105 years old: FrenchAcademyofSciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, Centenarian, Erdős number 3, United States National Academy of Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences…Member of the French Academy of Sciences, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Royal Society of London, Alumni of the École Normale Supérieure, French; Henri Cartan is a son of Élie Cartan, and is, as his father was, a distinguished and influential French mathematician. Cartan studied at the L...

Jacques Tits male, 79 years old: Free University of Brussels alumni, FrenchAcademyofSciences, Université libre de Bruxelles, College de France, emeritus, belgian…university of bonn, groups of Lie type, French; Jacques Tits is a Belgian mathematician. He has written and cowritten a large number of papers on a number of subjects, principally group theory....

Jean-Charles de Borda male, deceased (1799): from Aquitaine, American Revolutionary War, mathematician, Political scientist, Sailor, French…French Navy officer, French Navy, FrenchAcademyofSciences; Jean-Charles Chevalier de Borda, was a French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor. Born in the city of Dax, in 1756 Borda...

Friedrich Hirzebruch male, 82 years old: University of Bonn faculty, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Atiyah-Singer index theorem, algebraic geometry, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, university of bonn…Russian Academy of Sciences, University of Münster, United States National Academy of Sciences, FrenchAcademyofSciences, Member of the French Academy of Sciences; Friedrich E.P. Hirzebruch is a German mathematician, working in the fields of topology, complex manifolds and algebraic geometry, and a leading...

Antonio de Ulloa male, deceased (1795): andalusian, spanish conquistador, seville, British, Meteorologist, platinum…Governor of Louisiana, Discoverer of chemical elements, FrenchAcademyofSciences, French Geodesic Mission; Antonio de Ulloa (January 12, 1716 - July 3, 1795) was a Spanish general, explorer, author, astronomer, colonial administrator and the first...

Jean Leray male, deceased (1998): mathematician, prisoner of war, Alumni of the École Normale Supérieure, Mathematical analyst, French, University of Paris…University of Nancy, FrenchAcademyofSciences; Jean Leray was a French mathematician, who worked on both partial differential equations and algebraic topology. He was born in Nantes. He studied...

Jacob Palis male, 69 years old: FrenchAcademyofSciences, mathematician, diffeomorphism, United States National Academy of Sciences, Erdős number 3, University of California, Berkeley…Third World Academy of Sciences, legion of honor; Jacob Palis, Jr. is a Brazilian mathematician of international recognition. Since 1973 he has held a permanent position as professor at Instituto...

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