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Jean BOIRON
French pharmacist
1906 - 1996 -
Georges BOUTON
French toymaker and engineer who with fellow Frenchman Jules-Albert de Dion founded the De Dion-Bouton company
1847 - 1938 -
John MUIR
Scottish-American:42 naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, glaciologist, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States of America
1838 - 1914 -
Xavier BICHAT
French anatomist and pathologist
1771 - 1802 -
Edgar MORIN
French philosopher and sociologist
1921 -
Nicolas Joseph CUGNOT
French inventor who built the first working self-propelled land-based mechanical vehicle, the world's first automobile
1725 - 1804 -
Régine PERNOUD
French historian and archivist
1909 - 1998 -
Jean-Pierre AZEMA
French historian
1937 -
Alain REY
French linguist, lexicographer and radio personality
1928 - 2020 -
Antoine BECQUEREL
French scientist and a pioneer in the study of electric and luminescent phenomena
1788 - 1878 -
Olivier DE SERRES
French author and soil scientist
1539 - 1619 -
Jean TULARD
French academic and historian
1933 -
Phil MCGRAW
American television personality, author, psychologist, and the host of the television show Dr. Phil
1950 -
François DE GROSSOUVRE
French politician
1918 - 1994 -
Maurice AUDIN
French mathematics assistant
1932 - 1957 -
Charles Martial GALLET
Co-founder of the French perfume company Roger & Gallet
1824 - 1901 -
Albert JACQUARD
French geneticist, popularizer of science, essayist and humanist
1925 - 2013 -
Georges LEMAITRE
Belgian Catholic Priest, astronomer and professor of physics
1894 - 1966 -
Georges DUBY
French historian
1919 - 1996 -
Émile COUÉ
French psychologist and pharmacist
1857 - 1926