Marie Curie07 November 1867
First woman to win a Nobel Prize
Louis Pasteur27 December 1822
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Pierre Curie15 May 1859
Nobel Laureate in Physics
Irène Joliot-Curie12 September 1897
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Pierre-Simon Laplace23 March 1749
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Henri Poincare29 April 1854
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Louis de Broglie15 August 1892
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Joseph Fourier21 March 1768
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Georges Cuvier23 August 1769
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Adrien-Marie Legendre18 September 1752
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Claude Bernard12 July 1813
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Alexis Carrel28 June 1873
Surgeon, Biologist
Gabriel Lippmann16 August 1845
Physicist & Nobel Laureate
Léon Foucault18 September 1819
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Alexandre Yersin22 September 1863
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Charles Hermite24 December 1822
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Victor Grignard06 May 1871
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Jean Baptiste Perrin30 September 1870
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Henri Moissan28 September 1852
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Paul Sabatier05 November 1854
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Charles Richet25 August 1850
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Charles Nicolle21 September 1866
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Vilfredo Pareto15 July 1848
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Joseph-Louis Lagrange25 January 1736
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Paul Langevin23 January 1872
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Pierre-André Latreille29 November 1762
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Paul Lévy15 September 1886
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Paul Broca28 June 1824
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François Arago26 February 1786
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Léon Walras16 December 1834
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Lazare Carnot13 May 1753
Mathematician, Politician, Engineer, Officer,
Prosper Mérimée28 September 1803
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Henri Lebesgue28 June 1875
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Étienne-Jules Marey05 March 1830
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Élie Cartan09 April 1869
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Antoine Laurent de Jussieu12 April 1748
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Camille Flammarion26 February 1842
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Urbain Le Verrier11 March 1811
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Camille Jordan05 January 1838
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Michel Eugène Chevreul31 August 1786
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Gaspard Monge09 May 1746
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Émile Borel07 January 1871
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Serge Voronoff10 July 1866
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Henri Louis Le Chatelier08 October 1850
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Jean-Henri Fabre21 December 1823
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Albert Calmette12 July 1863
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Georges Claude24 September 1870
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Louis Bachelier11 March 1870
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Joseph Proust26 September 1754
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Bernard Germain de Lacépède26 December 1756
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Pierre Duhem09 June 1861
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Joseph Liouville
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Jean Rostand30 October 1894
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Pierre Paul Emile Roux17 December 1853
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Jean-Baptiste Biot21 April 1774
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Marcellin Berthelot25 October 1827
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Antoine Augustin Cournot28 August 1801
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Antoine-Augustin Cournot28 August 1801
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Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille22 April 1797
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Sergei Winogradsky01 September 1856
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Charles Friedel12 March 1832
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Jacques Philippe Marie Binet
Hippolyte Fizeau23 September 1819
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Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis21 May 1792
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Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis
Xavier Bichat14 November 1771
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Paul Painlevé05 December 1863
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Michel Adanson07 April 1727
Botanist
Camille Guérin22 December 1872
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Édouard Lucas
Henri Breuil28 February 1877
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Auguste Bravais23 August 1811
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Olinde Rodrigues
Michel Chasles
Charles Frédéric Gerhardt21 August 1816
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François Magendie06 October 1783
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Jean-Robert Argand
Jean Charles Athanase Peltier22 February 1785
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Jean-Baptiste Dumas14 July 1800
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Gaston Planté22 April 1834
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Thomas Jan Stieltjes29 December 1856
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Louis Nicolas Vauquelin16 May 1763
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Émile Picard24 July 1856
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Louis-Sébastien Lenormand25 May 1757
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