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8 unusual facts about French Academy of Sciences


Château Sentout

During the nineteenth century then, by marriage to Aline Laville de Lacombe, Monsieur Eugène Fichot, a hydrographical engineer to the navy and member of the French Academy of Sciences, became the owner of Sentout.

French Academy of Sciences

For three centuries women were not allowed as members of the Academy, excluding two-time Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie, Nobel winner Irène Joliot-Curie, mathematician Sophie Germain, and many other deserving female scientists.

Hippolyte Bayard

He eventually gave details of the process to the French Academy of Sciences on 24 February 1840 in return for money to buy better equipment.

Bayard was persuaded to postpone announcing his process to the French Academy of Sciences by François Arago, a friend of Louis Daguerre, who invented the rival daguerreotype process.

Journet

After the retreat of the Germans from France in World War II, it was revealed that the French Academy of Sciences had a secret repository of scientific materials, including 100 boxes of records of the French chemist, Lavoisier, and sixty cases of rare mineral specimens.

Pedro Vicente Maldonado

From Madrid, he traveled to Paris, where he was received as a member of the French Academy of Sciences on March 24, 1747 based on reports about his merits from other geologists who knew him in Quito, giving him the opportunity to print his “General Map.”

Philippe Bouchet

In 2001 Bouchet was awarded the Marine Sciences Prize of the French Academy of Sciences for his work on the vertical migration of gastropod larvae.

Tartaras

He was a geometer, mathematician, member of the French Academy of Sciences (elected in 1768), corresponding member of the Academy of Berlin and Adademy of Bologna, honorary member of the Academy of St. Petersburg (1778), a collaborator with Denis Diderot for the mathematical part of the Encyclopedia, the father of the experimental hydrodynamics.


Aleksey Tillo

For creating this map Tillo was elected a corresponding member of the Russian (1892) and Parisian Academies of Sciences.

Armelin's calendar

Armelin's calendar proposal was discussed chiefly under the auspices of the Société astronomique de France in 1887 and recently in the French Academy of Sciences

Atlas Coelestis

Finally, the changes in the positions of stars (the original observations were made in the 1690s), led to an update made in the 1770s by the French engineer Jean Nicolas Fortin, supervised by the astronomers Le Monnier and Messier, from the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris.

Jacques Prost

Jacques Prost, born in 1946 in Bourg-en-Bresse, is a French physicist, General director of École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris, member of the French Academy of Sciences.

Rodolphe Radau

Radau won the Prix Damoiseau of the French Academy of Sciences in 1892 working on planetary perturbations in the motion of the Moon.

Susse Frères

On the 19th of August 1839 at the French Academy of Sciences, François Arago publicly unveiled the previously secret details of the daguerreotype process, the first publicly announced photographic process.


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André Marie Constant Duméril

Under the Restauration, he was elected a member of the Académie des Sciences (French Academy of Sciences) and succeeded, after 1803, Lacépède, who was occupied by his political offices, as professor of herpetology and ichthyology at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle.

Bour's minimal surface

It is named after Edmond Bour, whose work on minimal surfaces won him the 1861 mathematics prize of the French Academy of Sciences.