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Born February 22, 1785 • Ham • France
Died October 27, 1845 (aged 60) • Paris • France
Subjects Of Study Peltier effect • electricity

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Siméon-Denis Poisson, detail of a lithograph by François-Séraphin Delpech after a portrait by N. Maurin.
Siméon-Denis Poisson
French mathematician
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
French physicist
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish mathematician and physicist
Cavendish, Henry
Henry Cavendish
British physicist
Lomonosov, Mikhail
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian author and scientist
Kirchhoff, Gustav
Gustav Kirchhoff
German physicist
Franz Maria Ulrich Theodor Hoch Aepinus
German physicist
Oliver Heaviside
British physicist
Georg Simon Ohm; detail of a lithograph.
Georg Ohm
German physicist
John Canton
British physicist
Arsène d’Arsonval
French physician and physicist
Charles François de Cisternay Du Fay
French chemist
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, engraving by Ambroise Tardieu.
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac
French scientist
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist
André-Marie Ampère
André-Marie Ampère
French physicist
Becquerel, Henri
Henri Becquerel
French physicist
Laplace, Pierre-Simon, marquis de
Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace
French scientist and mathematician
Louis-Victor de Broglie
Louis de Broglie
French physicist
Gaspard Monge, detail of an oil painting by Jean Naigeon, 1811; in the Museum of Fine Arts, Beaune, France.
Gaspard Monge, count de Péluse
French mathematician and public official

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