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Siméon-Denis Poisson
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Born June 21, 1781 • France
Died April 25, 1840 (aged 58) • France • (Died on this day)
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1832)
Subjects Of Study Fourier series • definite integral • electricity • electromagnetism • Poisson distribution

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Helmholtz.
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Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
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Joseph Fourier
Joseph Fourier
French mathematician
James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish mathematician and physicist
Franz Maria Ulrich Theodor Hoch Aepinus
German physicist
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
British physicist and chemist
Cavendish, Henry
Henry Cavendish
British physicist
J.J. Thomson
J.J. Thomson
British physicist
Plücker, Julius
Julius Plücker
German mathematician and physicist
Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet
British mathematician and physicist
Abdus Salam
Pakistani physicist
Sir Nevill F. Mott at the ceremony with his Nobel Prize for Physics, 1977.
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Wilhelm Eduard Weber
German physicist
Sir Horace Lamb.
Sir Horace Lamb
English mathematician
Hans Christian Ørsted
Danish physicist and chemist
Georg Simon Ohm; detail of a lithograph.
Georg Ohm
German physicist
John Canton
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Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician
Fermat, portrait by Roland Lefèvre; in the Narbonne City Museums, France
Pierre de Fermat
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