Find out more about the greatest 19th Century French Scientists, including Louis Pasteur, Henri Poincare, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Louis de Broglie and Pierre Curie.
Louis Pasteur27 December 1822
Chemist and Microbiologist
Pierre Curie15 May 1859
Nobel Laureate in Physics
Irène Joliot-Curie12 September 1897
Chemist
Pierre-Simon Laplace23 March 1749
Scientist
Louis de Broglie15 August 1892
Physicist
Joseph Fourier21 March 1768
Mathematician & Physicist
Sophie Germain01 April 1776
Mathematician
Henri Becquerel15 December 1852
Physicist, Discoverer of Radioactivity
Augustin-Louis Cauchy21 August 1789
Mathematician
Adrien-Marie Legendre18 September 1752
Mathematician
Alexis Carrel28 June 1873
Surgeon, Biologist
Claude Bernard12 July 1813
Physiologist
Léon Foucault18 September 1819
Physicist
Alexandre Yersin22 September 1863
Discoverer of Yersinia Pestis
Gabriel Lippmann16 August 1845
Physicist & Nobel Laureate
Charles Hermite24 December 1822
Mathematician
Henri Moissan28 September 1852
Chemist
Victor Grignard06 May 1871
Chemist
Jean Baptiste Perrin30 September 1870
Physicist
Charles Richet25 August 1850
Physiologist
Charles Nicolle21 September 1866
Bacteriologist
Henri Poincare29 April 1854
Mathematician and Philosopher
Paul Sabatier05 November 1854
Chemist
Évariste Galois25 October 1811
Mathematician
Vilfredo Pareto15 July 1848
Economist, Writer, Philosopher, Sociologist,
Joseph-Louis Lagrange25 January 1736
Mathematician, Astronomer, Physicist, Politician,
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot01 June 1796
Mathematician, Physicist, Engineer, Scientist
Gustave Le Bon07 May 1841
Physician, Anthropologist, Archaeologist,
Siméon Denis Poisson21 June 1781
Mathematician, Astronomer, Physicist, University
Paul Broca28 June 1824
Physician, Anatomist, Anthropologist,
Léon Walras16 December 1834
Economist, University teacher, Mathematician
Paul Langevin23 January 1872
Physicist, Professor, Chemist, Philosopher of
Charles Lucien Bonaparte24 May 1803
Biologist, Ornithologist, Zoologist, Ichthyologist
Prosper Mérimée28 September 1803
Anthropologist, Archaeologist, Historian,
François Arago26 February 1786
Astronomer, Mathematician, Physicist, Politician,
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Lazare Carnot13 May 1753
Mathematician, Politician, Engineer, Officer,
Urbain Le Verrier11 March 1811
Astronomer, Mathematician, Politician
Gaspard Monge09 May 1746
Mathematician, Politician, Physicist, University
Henri Lebesgue28 June 1875
Mathematician, Professor
Camille Flammarion26 February 1842
astronomer, writer, balloonist, science fiction
Jacques Hadamard08 December 1865
Mathematician, Professor
Antoine Augustin Cournot
Camille Jordan05 January 1838
Mathematician, Engineer, Professor
Jean-Henri Fabre22 December 1823
Entomologist, Writer, University teacher, Poet
Michel Eugène Chevreul31 August 1786
Chemist
Serge Voronoff10 July 1866
Surgeon, Immunologist, Gynaecologist
Louis Bachelier11 March 1870
Mathematician, Economist, Non-fiction writer
Jean-Baptiste Biot21 April 1774
Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer, Civil
Joseph Liouville
Hippolyte Fizeau23 September 1819
Physicist, Astronomer
Georges Claude24 September 1870
Chemist, Physicist, Engineer, Inventor
Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis
Michel Chasles
Olinde Rodrigues
Jean Rostand30 October 1894
Philosopher, Biologist, Writer
Jean-Victor Poncelet
Jean-Robert Argand
Jacques Philippe Marie Binet
Gabriel Lamé
Jacques Charles François Sturm
Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre
Gaspard de Prony
Antoine Henri Becquerel15 December 1852
Armand-Hippolyte-Louis Fizeau23 September 1819
Jean-Bernard-Léon Foucault18 September 1819
Édouard Lucas
Élie Cartan
Émile Borel07 January 1871
Mathematician, Politician, University teacher
Émile Picard