Sciences
1438 famous people found
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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 -
Déodat GRATET DE DOLOMIEU
French geologist
1750 - 1801 -
Elie CARTAN
French mathematician
1869 - 1951 -
Jean-Louis PONS
French astronomer
1761 - 1831 -
Siméon LUCE
French historian
1833 - 1892 -
Jean-Marie ÉCORCHARD
French physician and botanist
1809 - 1882 -
Henri BRACONNOT
French chemist and pharmacist
1780 - 1855 -
Jean LANGERON
French physician
1891 - 1954 -
Bernard MENETREL
French physician and political advisor to Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II
1906 - 1947 -
Amédée GUILLOTIN DE CORSON
French historian
1837 - 1905 -
Françoise DOLTO
French pediatrician and psychoanalyst
1908 - 1988 -
John GOODRICKE
English amateur astronomer
1764 - 1786 -
Emmanuel DE ROUGÉ
French egyptologist and philologist
1811 - 1872 -
Evariste GALOIS
Mathematician
1811 - 1832 -
Donald KNUTH
American computer scientist, mathematician, and professor emeritus at Stanford University
1938 -
Charles NICOLLE
French bacteriologist who received the Nobel Prize in Medicine
1866 - 1936 -
Joseph CHALEY
French civil engineer and a pioneer designer of suspension bridges
1796 - 1861 -
Alfred MERLIN
French historian
1876 - 1965 -
Mona OZOUF
French philosopher and historian
1931 -
Augustin THIERRY
French historian
1795 - 1856