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53 famous people found
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Leonardo DA VINCI
Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer
1452 - 1519
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Isaac NEWTON
English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian
1643 - 1727
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André-Marie AMPERE
French physicist and mathematician
1775 - 1836
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John NAPIER
Scottish landowner known as a mathematician, physicist, and astronomer
1550 - 1617
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Leonhard EULER
Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician and engineer
1707 - 1783
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François VIÈTE
French mathematician
1540 - 1603
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Jean BERNOULLI
Swiss mathematician
1667 - 1748
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Jean LE ROND D'ALEMBERT
French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist
1717 - 1783
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Michel CHASLES
French mathematician
1793 - 1880
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Emilie DU CHATELET
French mathematician, physicist, and author during the Age of Enlightenment
1706 - 1749
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Gabriel LAMÉ
French mathematician
1795 - 1870
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Charles DUPIN
French Catholic mathematician, engineer, economist and politician
1794 - 1873
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Louis POINSOT
French mathematician and physicist
1777 - 1859
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Joseph FOURIER
French mathematician and physicist
1768 - 1830
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Achille Pierre DIONIS DU SÉJOUR
French astronomer and mathematician
1734 - 1794
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Denis POISSON
French mathematician, geometer, and physicist
1781 - 1840
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Anders CELSIUS
Swedish astronomer, physicist and mathematician
1701 - 1744
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Henri NAVIER
French engineer and physicist
1785 - 1836
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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
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Gaspard MONGE
French mathematician, the inventor of descriptive geometry
1746 - 1818