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Born May 22, 1903 • Vannes • France
Died March 16, 1992 (aged 88) • Paris • France
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William Penney
British scientist
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
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
Gaspard Monge, detail of an oil painting by Jean Naigeon, 1811; in the Museum of Fine Arts, Beaune, France.
Gaspard Monge, count de Péluse
French mathematician and public official
Joseph Fourier
Joseph Fourier
French mathematician
Siméon-Denis Poisson
Siméon-Denis Poisson
French mathematician
Mme du Châtelet, detail of a portrait by an unknown French artist; in a private collection
Gabrielle-Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise du Châtelet
French scientist and philosopher
Charles, Jacques-Alexandre-César
Jacques Charles
French physicist
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, lithograph.
Louis Daguerre
French painter and physicist
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Henri Cartan
French mathematician
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician
Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Galileo
Galileo
Italian natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician
Werner Karl Heisenberg sits at a desk in a suit with his hands folded, bookshelves in the background.
Werner Heisenberg
German physicist and philosopher
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
Scottish engineer, mathematician, and physicist
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
black and white photograph of Albert Einstein and his first wife, Mileva Marić-Einstein
Mileva Marić-Einstein
mathematician and physicist
J. Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer
American physicist
Christiaan Huygens
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch scientist and mathematician
David Hilbert
David Hilbert
German mathematician

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