Find out more about the greatest 19th Century French Scientists, including Louis Pasteur, Henri Poincare, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Louis de Broglie and Pierre Curie.
Marie Curie07 November 1867
First woman to win a Nobel Prize
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
Évariste Galois25 October 1811
Mathematician
Joseph Fourier21 March 1768
Mathematician & Physicist
Louis de Broglie15 August 1892
Physicist
Henri Becquerel15 December 1852
Physicist, Discoverer of Radioactivity
Georges Cuvier23 August 1769
Naturalist
Sophie Germain01 April 1776
Mathematician
Augustin-Louis Cauchy21 August 1789
Mathematician
Alexandre Yersin22 September 1863
Discoverer of Yersinia Pestis
Alexis Carrel28 June 1873
Surgeon, Biologist
Adrien-Marie Legendre18 September 1752
Mathematician
Claude Bernard12 July 1813
Physiologist
Léon Foucault18 September 1819
Physicist
Gabriel Lippmann16 August 1845
Physicist & Nobel Laureate
Charles Hermite24 December 1822
Mathematician
Victor Grignard06 May 1871
Chemist
Jean Baptiste Perrin30 September 1870
Physicist
Henri Moissan28 September 1852
Chemist
Charles Richet25 August 1850
Physiologist
Charles Nicolle21 September 1866
Bacteriologist
Henri Poincare29 April 1854
Mathematician and Philosopher
Paul Sabatier05 November 1854
Chemist
Vilfredo Pareto15 July 1848
Economist, Writer, Philosopher, Sociologist,
Gustave Le Bon07 May 1841
Physician, Anthropologist, Archaeologist,
Siméon Denis Poisson21 June 1781
Mathematician
Paul Langevin23 January 1872
Physicist, Professor, Chemist, Philosopher of
Charles Lucien Bonaparte24 May 1803
Biologist, Ornithologist, Zoologist, Ichthyologist
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Léon Walras16 December 1834
Economist, University teacher, Mathematician
François Arago26 February 1786
Astronomer, Mathematician, Physicist, Politician,
Prosper Mérimée28 September 1803
Anthropologist, Archaeologist, Historian,
Paul Broca28 June 1824
Physician, Anatomist, Anthropologist,
Jacques Hadamard08 December 1865
Mathematician
Lazare Carnot13 May 1753
Mathematician, Politician, Engineer, Officer,
Camille Flammarion26 February 1842
astronomer, writer, balloonist, science fiction
Élie Cartan
Henri Lebesgue28 June 1875
Mathematician
Louis Bachelier11 March 1870
Mathematician, Economist, Non-fiction writer
Urbain Le Verrier11 March 1811
Astronomer
Michel Eugène Chevreul31 August 1786
Chemist
Gaspard Monge09 May 1746
Mathematician, Politician, Physicist, University
Pierre Duhem09 June 1861
Historian
Maurice René Fréchet02 September 1878
Mathematician
Jean-Henri Fabre21 December 1823
Entomologist
Camille Jordan05 January 1838
Mathematician, Engineer, Professor
Albert Calmette12 July 1863
Physician
Antoine Augustin Cournot28 August 1801
Philosopher
Émile Borel07 January 1871
Mathematician, Politician, University teacher
Jean-Baptiste Biot21 April 1774
Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer, Civil
Serge Voronoff10 July 1866
Surgeon, Immunologist, Gynaecologist
Antoine Laurent de Jussieu12 April 1748
Botanist
Hippolyte Fizeau23 September 1819
Physicist, Astronomer
Camille Guérin22 December 1872
Veterinarian
Sergei Winogradsky01 September 1856
Microbiologist
Joseph Liouville
Édouard LucasPaul Painlevé05 December 1863
Mathematician
Paul Bert19 October 1833
Physiologist
Georges Claude24 September 1870
Chemist, Physicist, Engineer, Inventor
Jean Rostand30 October 1894
Philosopher, Biologist, Writer
Étienne-Louis Malus23 July 1775
Physicist
Gaston Planté22 April 1834
Physicist
Charles Friedel12 March 1832
Chemist
François Magendie06 October 1783
Physiologist
Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis
Émile PicardMichel Adanson07 April 1727
Botanist
Michel ChaslesHenri Breuil28 February 1877
Archaeologist
Jacques Philippe Marie Binet
Gabriel LaméJean Pierre Flourens13 April 1794
Physiologist
Olinde RodriguesAlexandre Brongniart05 February 1770
Chemist
Nicolas Leblanc06 December 1742
Chemist
Jean-Robert ArgandAuguste Bravais23 August 1811
Physicist
Louis Nicolas Vauquelin16 May 1763
Pharmacist
Jean Charles Athanase Peltier22 February 1785
Physicist
Bernard Courtois08 February 1777
Chemist
Ami Boué16 March 1794
Geologist
Anselme Payen06 January 1795
Chemist
Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre19 January 1737
Writer
Jean-Victor Poncelet
Louis-Sébastien Lenormand25 May 1757
Chemist
André Michaux08 March 1746
Botanist
Joseph Bertrand11 March 1822
Mathematician
Jeanne Villepreux-Power24 September 1794
Biologist
François-Marie Raoult10 May 1830
Chemist
Joseph Nicollet24 July 1786
Geographer
Jacques Charles François Sturm29 September 1803
Mathematician