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  Jean-Baptiste GUIMET

  French industrial chemist

  1795 - 1871
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  Pierre GOURJU

  French scholar

  1762 - 1814
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  Denis POISSON

  French mathematician, geometer, and physicist

  1781 - 1840
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  Jean-Baptiste AUCLERC DESCOTTES

  French politician

  1737 - 1826
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  Jean Philippe DE CHESEAUX

  Astronomer from Lausanne in Switzerland

  1718 - 1751
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  Louis VITET

  French politician

  1736 - 1809
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  Marcel DE SERRES

  French caver, geologist and naturalist

  1780 - 1862
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  Antide JANVIER

  French clockmaker

  1751 - 1835
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  Déodat GRATET DE DOLOMIEU

  French geologist

  1750 - 1801
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  Joseph Ignace GUILLOTIN

  French physician and freemason who proposed on 10 October 1789 the use of a device to carry out death penalties in France, as a less painful method of execution

  1738 - 1814
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  Jean-Louis PONS

  French astronomer

  1761 - 1831
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  André Jean Baptiste ROBINEAU-DESVOIDY

  French physician and entomologist

  1799 - 1857
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  Henri BRACONNOT

  French chemist and pharmacist

  1780 - 1855
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  John GOODRICKE

  English amateur astronomer

  1764 - 1786
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  Joseph CHALEY

  French civil engineer and a pioneer designer of suspension bridges

  1796 - 1861
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  Guillaume DU BELLAY

  French diplomat and general under King Francis I

  1491 - 1543
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  Augustin THIERRY

  French historian

  1795 - 1856
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  Thomas SYDENHAM

  English physician

  1624 - 1689
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  Antonie VAN LEEUWENHOEK

  Dutch tradesman and scientist

  1632 - 1723
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  Anders CELSIUS

  Swedish astronomer, physicist and mathematician

  1701 - 1744