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Which award did Jean Le Rond dâAlembert win from the Berlin Academy in 1747?
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Jean Le Rond dâAlembert
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert.
In 1747, Jean Le Rond dâAlembert won a prize from the Berlin Academy for his work RĂ©flexions sur la cause gĂ©nĂ©rale des vents, which contained his initial papers on partial differential equations.1