Siméon Denis Poisson
1781
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1840
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: France
languages spoken, written or signed: French
educated at: École polytechnique
occupation: mathematician, astronomer, physicist, university teacher, politician, statistician
award received: Copley Medal, Lalande Prize, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 72 names on the Eiffel Tower
position held: Pair of France, president
student of: Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Baron Siméon Denis Poisson FRS FRSE (French: [si.me.ɔ̃ də.ni pwa.sɔ̃]; 21 June 1781 – 25 April 1840) was a French mathematician and physicist who worked on statistics, complex analysis, partial differential equations, the calculus of variations, analytical mechanics, electricity and magnetism, thermodynamics, elasticity, and fluid mechanics. Moreover, he predicted the Poisson spot in his attempt to disprove the wave theory of Augustin-Jean Fresnel, which was later confirmed. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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