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326 famous people found
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Robert FULTON
Colonial American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat
1765 - 1815 -
William H. PRESCOTT
American historian and Hispanist, who is widely recognized by historiographers to have been the first American scientific historian
1796 - 1859 -
Antoine PORTAL
French anatomist, doctor, medical historian and founding president of the Académie Nationale de Médecine
1742 - 1832 -
Henri NAVIER
French engineer and physicist
1785 - 1836 -
Henry SCHOOLCRAFT
American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist
1793 - 1864 -
John Loudon MCADAM
Scottish engineer and road-builder, he invented a new process, "macadamisation", for building roads
1756 - 1836 -
Erasmus DARWIN
English physician
1731 - 1802 -
Amédée Louis Michel LE PELETIER
French entomologist
1770 - 1845 -
David RAMSAY
American physician, public official, and historian
1749 - 1815 -
Jethro TULL
English agricultural pioneer from Berkshire who helped bring about the British Agricultural Revolution
1674 - 1740 -
Tycho BRAHE
Danish nobleman known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical and planetary observations
1546 - 1601 -
Denis PAPIN
French physicist, mathematician and inventor, best known for his pioneering invention of the steam digester, the forerunner of the steam engine, and of the pressure cooker
1647 - 1712 -
Gaspard MONGE
French mathematician, the inventor of descriptive geometry
1746 - 1818 -
Friedrich PARROT
German naturalist and traveller
1792 - 1841 -
François BONAMY
French botanist and physician
1710 - 1786 -
Charles BOSSUT
French mathematician
1730 - 1814 -
Bernard DE JUSSIEU
French naturalist
1699 - 1777 -
Jean-Jacques AMPERE
French philologist and writer
1800 - 1864 -
Augustin-Louis CAUCHY
French mathematician
1789 - 1857 -
François ARAGO
French Catalan mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician
1786 - 1853