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Born February 27, 1897 • Paris • France
Died April 2, 1952 (aged 55) • Cairo • Egypt
Inventions coronagraph
Deslandres
Henri-Alexandre Deslandres
French physicist
Charles, Jacques-Alexandre-César
Jacques Charles
French physicist
Galileo
Galileo
Italian natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician
Engraving portrait of Carl Friedrich Gauss wearing a cap and formal 19th-century clothing, with detailed shading around his face and upper body.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
Christiaan Huygens
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch scientist and mathematician
Samuel P. Langley.
Samuel Pierpont Langley
American engineer and astrophysicist
Anders Celsius, detail from a drawing by an unknown artist, 18th century.
Anders Celsius
Swedish astronomer
Zhang Heng: seismoscope
Zhang Heng
Chinese mathematician, astronomer, and geographer
Portrait of Pierre Simon Marquis de Laplace wearing formal attire with a sash and star-shaped medal, looking slightly to his left.
Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace
French scientist and mathematician
Jean-Sylvain Bailly
Jean-Sylvain Bailly
French astronomer
Gian Domenico Cassini.
Gian Domenico Cassini
French astronomer
Nicéphore Niépce
Nicéphore Niépce
French inventor
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Jeanne Villepreux-Power
French-born naturalist
Pierre Janssen, detail from an engraving
Pierre Janssen
French astronomer
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Urbain-Jean-Joseph Le Verrier
French astronomer
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Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
French mathematician and astronomer
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Gérard Mourou
French physicist
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, lithograph.
Louis Daguerre
French painter and physicist
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Alexandre Alexeïeff
French animator
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Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard Bochart de Saron
French scientist

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