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Officers of the French Academy of Sciences

  • NapoleonNapoleon Bonaparte was born on the island of Corsica on the 15th of August 1769 to Carlo Maria Buonaparte and Maria Letizia Ramolino.
  • 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…
  • 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…