List of French scientists
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A list of notable French
scientists.
French people
The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
scientists.
- José AchacheJosé AchacheJosé Achache is currently the Secretariat Director of Global Earth Observation System of Systems. He is the first to serve in the position, having taken the post in 2005....
- Claude AllègreClaude AllègreClaude Allègre is a French politician and scientist.- Scientific work :The main scientific area of Claude Allègre is geochemistry....
- Françoise ArdréFrançoise ArdréFrançoise Ardré is a French phycologist and marine scientist; honoured as the namesake of the red alga known as Pterosiphonia ardreana....
- Arnoult de LisleArnoult de LisleArnoult de Lisle was a French physician, Arabist, and diplomat of the 16th and 17th centuries.As a young physician, Arnoult de Lisle married the daughter of Louis Duret, a specialist of Avicenna, in 1586.-Morocco :...
- Pierre-Dominique BazainePierre-Dominique BazainePierre-Dominique Bazaine was a French scientist and engineer. He was educated at the École Polytechnique in Paris as an engineer...
- Baruj BenacerrafBaruj BenacerrafBaruj Benacerraf was a Venezuelan-born American immunologist, who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the "discovery of the major histocompatibility complex genes which encode cell surface protein molecules important for the immune system's distinction between self and...
- Claude BernardClaude BernardClaude Bernard was a French physiologist. He was the first to define the term milieu intérieur . Historian of science I. Bernard Cohen of Harvard University called Bernard "one of the greatest of all men of science"...
- Marcellin BerthelotMarcellin BerthelotMarcelin Pierre Eugène Berthelot was a French chemist and politician noted for the Thomsen-Berthelot principle of thermochemistry. He synthesized many organic compounds from inorganic substances and disproved the theory of vitalism. He is considered as one of the greatest chemists of all time.He...
- Julien BessièresJulien BessièresHenri Géraud Julien, Chevalier Bessières et de l'Empire was a French scientist and diplomat. He was a cousin of marshal Jean-Baptiste Bessières and Bertrand Bessières.-Life:...
- Claude BourgelatClaude BourgelatClaude Bourgelat was a French veterinary surgeon.Bourgelat was born at Lyon. He was the founder of veterinary colleges at Lyon in 1762, as well as an authority on horse management, and often consulted on the matter...
- Jean-Baptiste Boussingault
- Gerard BrachetGerard Brachet-Career:Brachet earned an engineering degree from the Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Aeronautique in 1967 and a MS in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the University of Washington in 1968...
- Paul BrocaPaul BrocaPierre Paul Broca was a French physician, surgeon, anatomist, and anthropologist. He was born in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, Gironde. He is best known for his research on Broca's area, a region of the frontal lobe that has been named after him. Broca’s Area is responsible for articulated language...
- Bernard Brunhes (physicist)Bernard Brunhes (physicist)Bernard Brunhes was a French geophysicist known for his pioneering work in paleomagnetism, in particular, his 1906 discovery of geomagnetic reversal. The Brunhes–Matuyama reversal is named for him....
- Bernard CabaneBernard CabaneBernard Cabane is a French Scientist, director in the French National Center for Scientific Research in ESPCI ParisTech and corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences. Expert in wine tannins, polymers and surfactants, and fluid dynamics....
- Pierre Jean George CabanisPierre Jean George Cabanis-Further reading:- Further reading :----...
- Albert CalmetteAlbert CalmetteLéon Charles Albert Calmette ForMemRS was a French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist, and an important officer of the Pasteur Institute. He discovered the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin, an attenuated form of Mycobacterium used in the BCG vaccine against tuberculosis...
- Georges CanguilhemGeorges CanguilhemGeorges Canguilhem was a French philosopher and physician who specialized in epistemology and the philosophy of science .-Life and work:...
- Paolo Capio
- Georges CharpyGeorges CharpyGeorges Charpy, full name Georges Augustin Albert Charpy was the French scientist who created the Charpy impact test. He attended École Polytechnique from 1885 to 1887 and graduated with a degree in Marine Artillery. In 1887 he became a professor at École Monge. In 1892 he published his physics...
- Albert ChâteletAlbert ChâteletAlbert Châtelet was a French politician and scientist. Châtelet received his teaching degree from the École Normale Supérieure in 1908. After earning a doctorate in 1913, Châtelet became a lecturer at École centrale de Lille and a professor at Université de Lille, rising to the rank of ...
- Émilie du ChâteletÉmilie du Châtelet-Early life:Du Châtelet was born on 17 December 1706 in Paris, the only daughter of six children. Three brothers lived to adulthood: René-Alexandre , Charles-Auguste , and Elisabeth-Théodore . Her eldest brother, René-Alexandre, died in 1720, and the next brother, Charles-Auguste, died in 1731...
- Jean Mathieu de ChazellesJean Mathieu de ChazellesJean Mathieu de Chazelles , French hydrographer, was born in Lyon.He was nominated professor of hydrography at Marseilles in 1685, and in that capacity carried out various coast surveys. In 1693 he was engaged to publish a second volume of the Neptune français, which was to, include the hydrography...
- Michel CheMichel CheProfessor Michel Che completed his doctorate in 1968 at the University of Lyon and studied as a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University...
- Charles Pierre Claret de FleurieuCharles Pierre Claret de FleurieuCharles Pierre Claret, comte de Fleurieu was a French explorer, hydrographer and politician. He was Minister of the Navy under Louis XVI, and a member of the Institut de France, as well as the brother of the botanist Marc Antoine Louis Claret de la Tourette.-Ancien Regime:Fleurieu was born in Lyon...
- Louis CostazLouis CostazLouis, baron Costaz Louis, baron Costaz Louis, baron Costaz (17 March 1767, Champagne-en-Valromey (Bugey – 15 February 1842, Paris was a French scientist and administrator.His brother Gastroass was bishop of Nancy. After studying maths, he taught at the military school at Thiron until 1793,...
- Louis CouffignalLouis CouffignalLouis Couffignal was a French Mathematician and Cybernetics pioneer. He taught in schools in the southwest of Brittany, then at the naval academy and, eventually, at the Buffon School.- Biography :...
- Vincent CourtillotVincent CourtillotVincent E. Courtillot is a contemporary French geophysicist, prominent among the researchers who are critical of the hypothesis that impact events are a primary cause of mass extinction of life forms on the Earth...
- Philippe CousteauPhilippe CousteauPhilippe Cousteau was a documentary film maker specializing in environmental issues, with a background in oceanography. He was the second son of Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Simone Cousteau....
- Jean-Marie-Joseph CoutelleJean-Marie-Joseph CoutelleJean-Marie-Joseph Coutelle was a French engineer, scientist and pioneer of ballooning.-Life:...
- Jean CruveilhierJean CruveilhierJean Cruveilhier was a French anatomist and pathologist.In 1816 he earned his doctorate in Paris, where in 1825 he succeeded Pierre Augustin Béclard as professor of anatomy...
- Marie CurieMarie CurieMarie Skłodowska-Curie was a physicist and chemist famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes—in physics and chemistry...
- Georges CuvierGeorges CuvierGeorges Chrétien Léopold Dagobert Cuvier or Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier , known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist...
- Thomas-François DalibardThomas-François DalibardThomas-François Dalibard was born in Crannes-en-Champagne, France in 1709 and died in 1799.-Relationship with Ben Franklin:He first met U.S. scientist Benjamin Franklin in 1767 during one of Franklin's visits to France and it is said that they became friends.In 1750, Benjamin Franklin published a...
- Henry DarcyHenry DarcyHenry Philibert Gaspard Darcy was a French engineer who made several important contributions to hydraulics.-Biography:...
- Raymond DaudelRaymond DaudelRaymond Daudel was a French theoretical and quantum chemist.Trained as a physicist, he was an assistant to Irène Joliot-Curie at the Radium Institute. Daudel spent almost the entirety of his career as professor at the Sorbonne and director of a laboratory of the Centre National de la Recherche...
- Jean DaussetJean DaussetJean-Baptiste-Gabriel-Joachim Dausset was a French immunologist born in Toulouse, France. He married Rose Mayoral in 1963, with whom he had two children, Henri and Irène...
- John Theophilus DesaguliersJohn Theophilus DesaguliersJohn Theophilus Desaguliers was a natural philosopher born in France. He was a member of the Royal Society of London beginning 29 July 1714. He was presented with the Royal Society's highest honour, the Copley Medal, in 1734, 1736 and 1741, with the 1741 award being for his discovery of the...
- René DescartesRené DescartesRené Descartes ; was a French philosopher and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch Republic. He has been dubbed the 'Father of Modern Philosophy', and much subsequent Western philosophy is a response to his writings, which are studied closely to this day...
- Maurice DongierMaurice DongierDr Maurice Dongier is a neuropsychiatrist at the Douglas Hospital Research Centre in Montreal, Canada. He is a Knight of the French Legion of Honour as well as a connoisseur of wine and fine cooking...
- Jean-Baptiste du HamelJean-Baptiste du HamelJean-Baptiste Du Hamel, Duhamel or du Hamel was a notable French cleric and natural philosopher of the late seventeenth century, and the first secretary of the Academie Royale des Sciences...
- Jean-Baptiste DumasJean-Baptiste DumasJean Baptiste André Dumas was a French chemist, best known for his works on organic analysis and synthesis, as well as the determination of atomic weights and molecular weights by measuring vapor densities...
- Charles François DupuisCharles François DupuisCharles François Dupuis was a French savant, a professor of rhetoric at the Collège de Lisieux, Paris, who studied for the law in his spare time and was received as avocat in 1770...
- Nicole El KarouiNicole El KarouiNicole El Karoui is a French mathematician, and pioneer in the development of Mathematical Finance. The courses she teaches are regarded by many as the most prestigious in this field. She is currently professor of Applied Mathematics at the Pierre and Marie Curie University and previously at Ecole...
- Etienne HubertEtienne HubertEtienne Hubert d'Orléans was a French physician, Orientalist and diplomat of the 17th century.Etienne Hubert was a court physician for Moroccan ruler Ahmad al-Mansur in Marrakech from 1598 to 1600. In his position he was able during a year to learn Arabic well.From 1600, Etienne Hubert became Royal...
- Louis FeuilléeLouis FeuilléeLouis Éconches Feuillée was a French member of the Order of the Minims, explorer, astronomer, geographer, and botanist....
- Bernard FoingBernard FoingBernard Foing is a scientist at the European Space Agency , Executive Director of the and was Principal Project Scientist for SMART-1, the first European mission to the Moon.-Biography:...
- Joseph FourierJoseph FourierJean Baptiste Joseph Fourier was a French mathematician and physicist best known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations. The Fourier transform and Fourier's Law are also named in his honour...
- François FresneauFrançois FresneauFrançois Fresneau was a French scientist, and is credited for having written the first scientific paper on rubber.He also was known for having the first early idea of water proof material.-References:...
- Christophe GadbledChristophe GadbledChristophe Gadbled was a mathematics professor at the University of Caen.Gadbled was born in Saint-Martin-le-Bouillant. He is known to have been the mentor of Pierre-Simon Laplace...
- Vladimir GavreauVladimir GavreauVladimir Gavreau was a French scientist making experiments on the biological effects of infrasound....
- André GernezAndré GernezAndré Gernez is a French non-conventional physician. He created a global non-governmental organisation Organic Union International in 1989 with doctors Jacques Lacaze and Jean-Pierre Willem....
- Paul GervaisPaul GervaisFor the Canadian parliamentarian see Paul Mullins GervaisPaul Gervais full name François Louis Paul Gervaise was a French palaeontologist and entomologist.-Biography:...
- Mirko GrmekMirko GrmekMirko Dražen Grmek was a Croatian and French historian of medicine, writer and scientist. He was one of the pioneers and founders of the history of medicine...
- Camille GuérinCamille GuérinJean-Marie Camille Guérin was a French veterinarian, bacteriologist and immunologist who, together with Albert Calmette, developed the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin , a vaccine for immunization against tuberculosis....
- André GuinierAndré GuinierAndré Guinier was a French physicist who did important work in the field of X-ray diffraction and solid-state physics. He worked at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, then taught at the University of Paris and later at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay...
- Bửu HộiBuu HoiPrince Nguyễn Phúc Bửu Hội of the Nguyễn Dynasty was a diplomat for South Vietnam and a cancer researcher who published more than 1000 papers.-Family:...
- Jacques MasquelierJacques MasquelierJacques Masquelier is a French scientist. He is the discoverer of oligomeric proanthocyanidins or OPCs....
- Charles JanetCharles JanetCharles Janet was a French engineer, company director, inventor and biologist.-Life and work:Janet graduated from the Ecole des Mines and worked for some years in munitions. He then married the daughter of the owner of a manufacturing company and worked for it for the rest of his life, finding...
- Jean CourtialJean CourtialJean Courtial was a French physician, former polytechnician who worked at Curie Institute from 1950 to 1966. Courtial etablished the fact that any animal without growth hormone can't have cancer. André Gernez celebrated the memory of Jean Courtial to Société d'Encouragement au Progrès in...
- Irène Joliot-CurieIrène Joliot-CurieIrène Joliot-Curie was a French scientist, the daughter of Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie and the wife of Frédéric Joliot-Curie. Jointly with her husband, Joliot-Curie was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1935 for their discovery of artificial radioactivity. This made the Curies...
- Jean JouzelJean JouzelJean Jouzel, is a French glaciologist and climatologist. He is a world renowned specialist in major climatic shifts based on his analysis of Antarctic and Greenland ice...
- Corentin Louis KervranCorentin Louis KervranCorentin Louis Kervran was a French scientist best known for his defense of the unconventional belief in biological transmutation. In WWII he was part of the French Resistance...
- Frédéric de LafresnayeFrédéric de LafresnayeBaron Nöel Frédéric Armand André de Lafresnaye was a French ornithologist and collector.Lafresnaye was born into an aristocratic family at Chateau de La Fresnaye in Falaise, Normandy. He took an early interest in natural history, particularly entomology...
- Claude François LallemandClaude François LallemandClaude François Lallemand was a French physician.After serving as assistant surgeon in the armies of the Empire, he studied in Paris at the Hotel Dieu under Guillaume Dupuytren, and, from 1819 to 1845, was Professor of Clinical Surgery at Montpellier, with the exception of three years, during...
- Jean-Baptiste LamarckJean-Baptiste LamarckJean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de la Marck , often known simply as Lamarck, was a French naturalist...
- Pierre-Simon LaplacePierre-Simon LaplacePierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace was a French mathematician and astronomer whose work was pivotal to the development of mathematical astronomy and statistics. He summarized and extended the work of his predecessors in his five volume Mécanique Céleste...
- Lucien LaubierLucien LaubierLucien Laubier was a French oceanographer. He began his scientific career at the Arago Laboratory in Banyuls-sur-Mer where he conducted underwater studies of coral resources at depths between 20 and 42 metres...
- Xavier Le PichonXavier Le PichonXavier Le Pichon is a French geophysicist. Among many other contributions, he is known for his comprehensive model of plate tectonics .He is professor at the Collège de France.-Biography:Le Pichon holds a doctorate in physics....
- Marcel LerouxMarcel LerouxMarcel Leroux was a French climatologist, a former Professor of Climatology at Jean Moulin University in Lyon, France, and director of the Laboratory of Climatology, Risk, and Environment....
- Edmond LocardEdmond LocardDr. Edmond Locard was a pioneer in forensic science who became known as the Sherlock Holmes of France. He formulated the basic principle of forensic science: "Every contact leaves a trace"...
- Charles MadicCharles MadicCharles Madic was a French scientist working on the reprocessing of radioactive material.- Biography :...
- Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de MairanJean-Jacques d'Ortous de MairanJean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan , a French geophysicist, astronomer and most notably, chronobiologist, was born in the town of Béziers on November 26, 1678...
- Ernest-François MallardErnest-François MallardErnest-François Mallard was a French mineralogist and a member of the French Academy of Sciences.-References:...
- Pierre Louis MaupertuisPierre Louis MaupertuisPierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis was a French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters. He became the Director of the Académie des Sciences, and the first President of the Berlin Academy of Science, at the invitation of Frederick the Great....
- Prosper MénièreProsper MénièreProsper Ménière , born in Angers, France. Ménière was lycée and university educated where he excelled at humanities and classics. He completed his gold medal in medical studies at Hôtel-Dieu de Paris in 1826, and his M.D...
- Michel MeslinMichel MeslinMichel Meslin was an emeritus professor and former president of the Université de Paris-Sorbonne .He established the Institut de Recherche pour l'Etude des Religions ....
- Jean-Louis Michel (oceanographer)Jean-Louis Michel (oceanographer)Jean-Louis Michel is a French oceanographer and engineer.He discovered subsea intervention in 1969 with the French Navy as an officer at the Groupe des Bathyscaphes headed by Captain Georges Houot. In 1985, Jean-Louis Michel led a team of French and American explorers who found the wreckage of the...
- Alphonse Milne-EdwardsAlphonse Milne-EdwardsAlphonse Milne-Edwards was a French mammalologist, ornithologist and carcinologist. He was English in origin, the son of Henri Milne-Edwards and grandson of Bryan Edwards, a Jamaican planter who settled at Bruges .Milne-Edwards obtained a medical degree in 1859 and became assistant to his father...
- Théodore MonodThéodore MonodThéodore André Monod was a French naturalist, explorer, and humanist scholar.-Exploration:...
- Henri Louis Habert de MontmorHenri Louis Habert de MontmorHenri Louis Habert de Montmor was a French scholar and man of letters.-Life:Cousin to Philippe Habert and Germain Habert, he became conseiller du roi aged 25, then in 1632 rose to become maître des requêtes, a post he gained thanks to the fortune of his father, treasurer extraordinary for war and...
- Gabriel MoutonGabriel MoutonGabriel Mouton was a French abbot and scientist. He was a doctor of theology from Lyon, but was also interested in mathematics and astronomy....
- Henri MoutonHenri MoutonHenri Mouton [5 September 1869, Cambrai - 13 June 1935, Bezons ] was a French scientist.He entered the École normale supérieure in 1889. He was a biologist at the Institut Pasteur, then...
- Jean de Noailles
- Jean-Baptiste NouletJean-Baptiste NouletJean-Baptiste Noulet was a French scientist and naturalist who helped to prove the archæological existence of humans and was one of the pioneers of the scientific discipline of prehistoric archaeology...
- Georg Friedrich ParrotGeorg Friedrich ParrotGeorg Friedrich Parrot was an Livonian scientist. He was the first rector of the Imperial University of Dorpat founded in 1802.-Biography:Georges-Frédéric Parrot was born in Montbéliard, France...
- Louis PasteurLouis PasteurLouis Pasteur was a French chemist and microbiologist born in Dole. He is remembered for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and preventions of diseases. His discoveries reduced mortality from puerperal fever, and he created the first vaccine for rabies and anthrax. His experiments...
- Jean Robert PetitJean Robert PetitJean Robert Petit studied chemistry and physics at the University of Grenoble and received a PhD in 1984 in paleoclimatology on the study of the aeolian dust record from Antarctic ice cores.- Academic works :...
- Jean-Pierre PetitJean-Pierre PetitJean-Pierre Petit is a French scientist, senior researcher at National Center for Scientific Research as an astrophysicist in Marseille Observatory, now retired...
- André PichotAndré PichotAndré Pichot is a researcher in Epistemology and History of Science, based at CNRS in Strasbourg. He was a pupil of Georges Canguilhem. He is known in France for his critical writings on issues related to genetics, in particular the influence modern biology has had on ideologies supporting...
- Alphonse PinartAlphonse PinartAlphonse Pinart was a French explorer, philologist, and ethnographer. He was an early champion of the theory that the Americas were first populated by migration across the Bering Strait. To support his research, he made extensive travel in the Pacific, from Alaska and the Aleutian Islands to...
- Hippolyte PixiiHippolyte PixiiHippolyte Pixii was an instrument maker from Paris, France. In 1832 he built an early form of alternating current electrical generator, based on the principle of magnetic induction discovered by Michael Faraday. Pixii's device was a spinning magnet, operated by a hand crank, where the North and...
- Pierre PoivrePierre PoivrePierre Poivre was a French horticulturalist born in Lyon; missionary to China and Cochinchina, Intendant of the Islands of Mauritius and Bourbon, and wearer of the cordon of St. Michel...
- Alberte PullmanAlberte PullmanAlberte Pullman was born in France in 1920. She is a theoretical and quantum chemist. She studied at the Sorbonne starting in 1938. During her studies she worked on calculations at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique . From 1943 she worked with Raymond Daudel. She completed her doctorate...
- Bernard PullmanBernard PullmanBernard Pullman was a French theoretical quantum chemist and quantum biochemist.Pullman studied at the Sorbonne, then spent the Second World War as a French Army officer in Africa and the Middle East. Returning to Paris in 1946, he completed the Licence-es-Sciences in 1946 and the...
- Lucien QuéletLucien Quéletthumb|Lucien QuéletLucien Quélet was a French mycologist and naturalist who discovered several species and was the founder of the Société mycologique de France, a society devoted to mycological studies....
- Louis-Antoine RanvierLouis-Antoine RanvierLouis-Antoine Ranvier was a French physician, pathologist, anatomist and histologist, who discovered nodes of Ranvier, regularly spaced constrictions of the myelin sheath, occurying at varying intervals along the length of a nerve fiber.Ranvier was born and studied medicine at Lyon, graduating in...
- René Antoine Ferchault de RéaumurRené Antoine Ferchault de RéaumurRené Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur was a French scientist who contributed to many different fields, especially the study of insects.-Life:Réaumur was born in a prominent La Rochelle family and educated in Paris...
- Jean-Baptiste RobinetJean-Baptiste RobinetJean-Baptiste Robinet was a French naturalist.He is known for his five-volume work De la nature . He was also involved in the sequel publications to the Encyclopédie, taking on Diderot's editorial role.-External links:**...
- Joël de RosnayJoël de RosnayJoël de Rosnay , Ph.D from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is a Mauritian-born French futurist, science writer, and molecular biologist....
- Nicolas SarrabatNicolas SarrabatFr. Nicolas Sarrabat or Sarabat , also known as Nicolas Sarrabat de la Baisse, was an eighteenth-century French mathematician and scientist. He was born in Lyon, the son of the painter Daniel Sarrabat , and the nephew of engraver Isaac Sarrabat...
- Schlumberger brothersSchlumberger brothersConrad Schlumberger and Marcel Schlumberger were brothers from the Alsace region in France...
- Auguste Ambroise TardieuAuguste Ambroise TardieuAuguste Ambroise Tardieu was a French medical doctor and the pre-eminent forensic medical scientist of the mid-19th century.Tardieu's specialties were forensic medicine and toxicology...
- Melchisédech ThévenotMelchisédech ThévenotMelchisédech Thévenot was a French author, scientist, traveler, cartographer, orientalist, inventor, and diplomat...
- Charles ThilorierCharles ThilorierCharles Thilorier was a scientist who gave the earliest description of dry ice, the solid form of carbon dioxide. In 1834 he opened a pressurized container of liquid carbon dioxide, only to find that the cooling produced by the rapid evaporation of the liquid yielded a "snow" of solid .-References:...
- Pierre-Marie-Jérôme TrésaguetPierre-Marie-Jérôme TrésaguetPierre-Marie-Jérôme Trésaguet was a French engineer. He is widely credited with establishing the first scientific approach to road building about the year 1764. Among his innovations was the use of a base layer of large stone covered with a thin layer of smaller stone...
- Louis Jean Pierre VieillotLouis Jean Pierre VieillotLouis Jean Pierre Vieillot was a French ornithologist.Vieillot described a large number of birds for the first time, especially those he encountered during the time he spent in the West Indies and North America, and 26 genera established by him are still in use...
- Charles Athanase WalckenaerCharles Athanase WalckenaerBaron Charles Athanase Walckenaer was a French civil servant and scientist.-Biography:Walckenaer was born in Paris and studied at the universities of Oxford and Glasgow. In 1793 he was appointed head of the military transports in the Pyrenees, after which he pursued technical studies at the École...
- Rachid YazamiRachid YazamiRachid Yazami is a scientist best known for his research on lithium ion batteries.-Education:Yazami is a 1978 graduate of the Grenoble Institute of Technology, where he also received a Ph. D. degree in 1985.-Battery research:...