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Physicist, Mathématician
Born Siméon Denis POISSON
French mathematician, geometer, and physicist
Born on June 22, 1781 in Pithiviers, France , France
Died on April 25, 1840 in Sceaux, France
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In 1798, he entered the École Polytechnique in Paris as first in his year, and immediately began to attract the notice of the professors of the school, who left him free to make his own decisions as to what he would study.
... Poisson was born in Pithiviers, Loiret, the son of soldier Siméon Poisson.
In 1798, he entered the École Polytechnique in Paris as first in his year, and immediately began to attract the notice of the professors of the school, who left him free to make his own decisions as to what he would study.
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