Curated category
French fellows of the Royal Society
- VoltaireFrançois-Marie Arouet was born in Paris on the 21st of November 1694. He entered the world as the youngest child of a minor treasury official and a woman…
- Joseph-Louis LagrangeGiuseppe Luigi Lagrangia was born in Turin on the 25th of January 1736. He grew up as the firstborn of eleven children in a family that had lost most of its…
- Claude Louis BertholletClaude Louis Berthollet entered the world on the 9th of December 1748 in Talloires. This small town sat near Annecy within the Duchy of Savoy.
- Louis PasteurLouis Pasteur was born on the 27th of December 1822 in Dole, Jura, France. He entered primary school in 1831 and struggled with dyslexia and dysgraphia…
- Antoine LavoisierAntoine-Laurent de Lavoisier was born on the 26th of August 1743 to a wealthy family of nobility in Paris. He inherited a large fortune at the age of five…
- Henri PoincaréOn the 29th of April 1854, Jules Henri Poincaré was born in the Cité Ducale neighborhood of Nancy. His early years were marked by a severe illness that left…
- Joseph FourierJean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier was born on the 21st of March 1768 in Auxerre, Burgundy. His father worked as a tailor and died when Fourier was only nine years…
- Pierre-Simon LaplacePierre-Simon Laplace was born on the 23rd of March 1749 in Beaumont-en-Auge, a small village four miles west of Pont l'Évêque.
- Élie MetchnikoffIlya Ilyich Mechnikoff entered the world on the 15th of May 1845 in a village within the Kharkov Governorate of the Russian Empire.
- Louis de BroglieLouis Victor Pierre Raymond, 7th Duc de Broglie, entered the world on the 15th of August 1892 in Dieppe, France. He belonged to a noble family that had held…