Marie Curie07 November 1867
First woman to win a Nobel Prize
Pierre Curie15 May 1859
Nobel Laureate in Physics
Irène Joliot-Curie12 September 1897
Chemist
Louis Pasteur27 December 1822
Chemist and Microbiologist
Pierre-Simon Laplace23 March 1749
Scientist
Évariste Galois25 October 1811
Mathematician
Henri Becquerel15 December 1852
Physicist, Discoverer of Radioactivity
Louis de Broglie15 August 1892
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Joseph Fourier21 March 1768
Mathematician & Physicist
Georges Cuvier23 August 1769
Naturalist
Augustin-Louis Cauchy21 August 1789
Mathematician
Sophie Germain01 April 1776
Mathematician
Adrien-Marie Legendre18 September 1752
Mathematician
Gabriel Lippmann16 August 1845
Physicist & Nobel Laureate
Alexis Carrel28 June 1873
Surgeon, Biologist
Claude Bernard12 July 1813
Physiologist
Alexandre Yersin22 September 1863
Discoverer of Yersinia Pestis
Léon Foucault18 September 1819
Physicist
Charles Hermite24 December 1822
Mathematician
Henri Moissan28 September 1852
Chemist
Jean Baptiste Perrin30 September 1870
Physicist
Victor Grignard06 May 1871
Chemist
Charles Richet25 August 1850
Physiologist
Charles Nicolle21 September 1866
Bacteriologist
Paul Sabatier05 November 1854
Chemist
Henri Poincare29 April 1854
Mathematician and Philosopher
Paul Langevin23 January 1872
Physicist, Professor, Chemist, Philosopher of
Vilfredo Pareto15 July 1848
Economist, Writer, Philosopher, Sociologist,
Jacques Hadamard08 December 1865
Mathematician
Joseph-Louis Lagrange25 January 1736
Mathematician
Maurice René Fréchet02 September 1878
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Gustave Le Bon07 May 1841
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Siméon Denis Poisson21 June 1781
Mathematician
François Arago26 February 1786
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Charles Lucien Bonaparte24 May 1803
Biologist
Léon Walras16 December 1834
Economist, University teacher, Mathematician
Paul Broca28 June 1824
Physician, Anatomist, Anthropologist,
Prosper Mérimée28 September 1803
Anthropologist, Archaeologist, Historian,
Lazare Carnot13 May 1753
Mathematician, Politician, Engineer, Officer,
Urbain Le Verrier11 March 1811
Astronomer
Camille Flammarion26 February 1842
astronomer, writer, balloonist, science fiction
Georges Claude24 September 1870
Chemist, Physicist, Engineer, Inventor
Élie Cartan09 April 1869
Mathematician
Henri Lebesgue28 June 1875
Mathematician
Michel Eugène Chevreul31 August 1786
Chemist
Jean-Henri Fabre21 December 1823
Entomologist
Gaspard Monge09 May 1746
Mathematician
Serge Voronoff10 July 1866
Surgeon, Immunologist, Gynaecologist
Émile Borel07 January 1871
Mathematician, Politician, University teacher
Pierre Duhem09 June 1861
Historian
Hippolyte Fizeau23 September 1819
Physicist, Astronomer
Camille Jordan05 January 1838
Mathematician, Engineer, Professor
Joseph Liouville
Marcellin Berthelot25 October 1827
Chemist
Antoine Augustin Cournot28 August 1801
Philosopher
Louis Bachelier11 March 1870
Mathematician, Economist, Non-fiction writer
Joseph Proust26 September 1754
Chemist
Jean-Baptiste Biot21 April 1774
Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer, Civil
Antoine Laurent de Jussieu12 April 1748
Botanist
Paul Painlevé05 December 1863
Mathematician
Édouard Lucas
Sergei Winogradsky01 September 1856
Microbiologist
Jean Rostand30 October 1894
Philosopher, Biologist, Writer
Bernard Germain de Lacépède26 December 1756
Naturalist
Xavier Bichat14 November 1771
Medical doctor
Paul Bert19 October 1833
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Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille22 April 1797
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Bernard Courtois08 February 1777
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Albert Calmette12 July 1863
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Jean-Baptiste Dumas14 July 1800
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Henri Breuil28 February 1877
Archaeologist
Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis21 May 1792
Mathematician
Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis
Michel Adanson07 April 1727
Botanist
Gaston Planté22 April 1834
Physicist
Olinde Rodrigues
Michel Chasles
Émile Picard24 July 1856
Mathematician
Jean-Robert Argand
Charles Friedel12 March 1832
Chemist
François Magendie06 October 1783
Physiologist
Jean-Victor Poncelet
Jacques Philippe Marie Binet
Charles Frédéric Gerhardt21 August 1816
French chemist
André Michaux08 March 1746
Botanist
Jean de Noailles26 October 1739
General and Chemist
Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre19 January 1737
Writer
Auguste Bravais23 August 1811
Physicist
Jean Pierre Flourens13 April 1794
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Félix Dujardin05 April 1801
Biologist
Louis Nicolas Vauquelin16 May 1763
Pharmacist
Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre
Étienne-Louis Malus23 July 1775
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Louis-Sébastien Lenormand25 May 1757
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