Henri Poincaré
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Jules Henri Poincaré was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science. He is often described as a polymath, and in mathematics as "The Last Universalist", since
Plaque on the birthplace of Henri Poincaré at house number 117 on the Grande Rue in the city of Nancy
The young Henri Poincaré in 1887 at the age of 33
The Poincaré family grave at the Cimetière du Montparnasse
Marie Curie and Poincaré talk at the 1911 Solvay Conference.
Dreyfus affair
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The Dreyfus affair was a political scandal that divided the Third French Republic from 1894 until its resolution in 1906. The scandal began in December 1894 when Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a 35-year-old
Henri Poincaré
…time zones and the synchronisation of time between bodies in relative motion. (See work on relativity section below.) In 1904, he intervened in the trials of Alfred Dreyfus, attacking the spurious scientific claims regarding evidence brought against Dreyfus. Poincaré was the President of the Société…
Dreyfus in 1894, the year he was prosecuted
General Raoul Le Mouton de Boisdeffre, architect of the military alliance with Russia
No. 35 Amnistie populaire of the Musée des Horreurs depicts the hanged corpse of an antisemitic caricature of Alfred Dreyfus.
Photograph of the bordereau dated 13 October 1894. The original disappeared in 1940.