José Dumont

male, 59 years old
José Dumont is a Brazilian TV and movie actor, best known for his role as the family father in "Behind the Sun" ("Abril Despedaçado"), an aw...

François Englert

male
François Englert, is a Belgian physicist. He studied and obtained his PhD at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). From 1959 until 1961, he w...

Joseph Frédéric Bérard

male, deceased (1828)
Joseph Frédéric Bérard, French physician and philosopher, was born at Montpellier. Educated at the medical school of that town, he afterwards wen...

Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze

female, deceased (1836)
Marie-Anne Pierette Paulze (January 20 1758, February 10 1836), more commonly known as Madame Lavoisier the "the mother of modern chemistry", was...

André Maréchal

male, 91 years old
André Maréchal, whose full name is Robert Gaston André Maréchal, is a French researcher and administrator in optics. Maréchal graduated from the É...

Joël Scherk

male, deceased (1979)
Joël Scherk was a physicist who studied string theory and supergravity. Together with John H. Schwarz, he figured out that string theory was a t...

Émile Verdet

male, deceased (1866)
Émile Verdet was a French physicist. He worked in magnetism and optics, editing the works of Augustin-Jean Fresnel. Verdet did much to champion t...