Louis Poinsot

1777 - 1859

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

country of citizenship: France

native language: French

languages spoken, written or signed: French

educated at: École polytechnique, École des Ponts ParisTech, Lycée Louis-le-Grand

occupation: mathematician, physicist, politician, university teacher

award received: Knight of the Legion of Honour, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, 72 names on the Eiffel Tower

position held: Second Empire senator, member of the Chamber of Peers, Inspector general of the Éducation nationale

Louis Poinsot (3 January 1777 – 5 December 1859) was a French mathematician and physicist. Poinsot was the inventor of geometrical mechanics, showing how a system of forces acting on a rigid body could be resolved into a single force and a couple. Source: Wikipedia (en)

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