Paul Langevin

•  Augustin-Jean Fresnel

  Augustin-Jean Fresnel (10 May 1788 – 14 July 1827), was a French physicist who contributed significantly to the establishment of the theory of wave optics. Fresnel studied the behaviour of light both theoretically and experimentally. He is perhaps best known as the inventor of the Fresnel lens, first adopted in lighthouses while he was a French commissioner of lighthouses, and found in many applications today.

  

  28.6%
  

  57.1%
  

  14.3%
  
•  André-Marie Ampère

  André-Marie Ampère FRS (20 January 1775 – 10 June 1836) was a French physicist and mathematician who is generally regarded as one of the main discoverers of electromagnetism. The SI unit of measurement of electric current, the ampere, is named after him.

  

  28.6%
  

  52.4%
  

  19.0%
  
•  Blaise Pascal

  Blaise Pascal, (June 19, 1623, Clermont-Ferrand – August 19, 1662, Paris) was a French mathematician, physicist, and Catholic philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a civil servant. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the construction of mechanical calculators, the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalizing the work of Evangelista Torricelli.

  

  41.4%
  

  24.1%
  

  34.5%
  
•  Firmin Abauzit

  Firmin Abauzit (1679–1767) was a French scholar who worked on physics, theology and philosophy, and served as librarian in Geneva during his final 40 years. Abauzit is also notable for proofreading or correcting the writings of Isaac Newton and other scholars.

  

  8.7%
  

  17.4%
  

  73.9%
  
•  Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis

  Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis or Gustave Coriolis (21 May 1792 – 19 September 1843) was a French mathematician, mechanical engineer and scientist. He is best known for his work on the supplementary forces that are detected in a rotating frame of reference, and one of those forces nowadays bears his name. See the Coriolis Effect. Coriolis was the first to coin the term "work" for the transfer of energy by a force acting through a distance.

  

  42.3%
  

  15.4%
  

  42.3%
  
•  Marie Curie

  Marie Skłodowska Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a physicist and chemist of Polish upbringing and, subsequently, French citizenship. She was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity, the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes, receiving one in physics and later, one in chemistry. She was the first woman to serve as professor at the University of Paris. She was born Maria Skłodowska in Warsaw and lived there until she was twenty-four years old.

  

  41.2%
  

  23.5%
  

  35.3%
  
•  Pierre Curie

  Pierre Curie (15 May 1859 – 19 April 1906) was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity, and Nobel laureate. In 1903 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, Maria Skłodowska-Curie, and Henri Becquerel, "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel."

  

  31.8%
  

  27.3%
  

  40.9%
  
•  François Arago

  François Jean Dominique Arago (26 February 1786 – 2 October 1853) was a French Catalan mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician.

  

  38.5%
  

  30.8%
  

  30.8%
  
•  Henri Poincaré

  Jules Henri Poincaré (29 April 1854 – 17 July 1912) was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, and a philosopher of science. Poincaré is often described as a polymath, and in mathematics as The Last Universalist, since he excelled in all fields of the discipline as it existed during his lifetime. As a mathematician and physicist, he made many original fundamental contributions to pure and applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and celestial mechanics.

  

  40.0%
  

  24.0%
  

  36.0%
  
•  Louis de Broglie

  Louis-Victor-Pierre-Raymond, 7th duc de Broglie, FRS (15 August 1892 – 19 March 1987) was a French physicist and a Nobel laureate. He was the sixteenth member elected to occupy seat 1 of the Académie française in 1944, and served as Perpetual Secretary of the Académie des sciences, France.

  

  27.8%
  

  44.4%
  

  27.8%
  

• French physicists by likeorhate
• 1872 births by likeorhate
• 1946 deaths by likeorhate
• Alumni of the École Normale Supérieure by likeorhate
• Burials at the Panthéon by likeorhate
• Collège de France faculty by likeorhate
• French Communist Party members by likeorhate
• French activists by likeorhate
• Recipients of the Copley Medal by likeorhate

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•  Avesta Municipality

  Avesta Municipality (Avesta kommun) is one of 290 municipalities of Sweden. It is in Dalarna County, in central part of the country, and its seat is in the town Avesta. The municipality in its present size was created in 1967 when the four surrounding municipalities were joined with the then City of Avesta. In 1971 it became a municipality of unitary type.

  

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•  Design registration

  An Industrial design right is an intellectual property right that protects the visual design of objects that are not purely utilitarian. An industrial design consists of the creation of a shape, configuration or composition of pattern or color, or combination of pattern and color in three dimensional form containing aesthetic value. An industrial design can be a two- or three-dimensional pattern used to produce a product, industrial commodity or handicraft.

  

  18.2%
  

  50.0%
  

  31.8%
  
•  The Venetians (Australian Rock Band)

  

  28.1%
  

  28.1%
  

  43.8%
  
•  N,N-dimethylarginine

  

  41.4%
  

  20.7%
  

  37.9%