Siméon Denis Poisson
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Baron Siméon Denis Poisson was a French mathematician and physicist who worked on statistics, complex analysis, partial differential equations, the calculus of variations, analytical mechanics, electr
The name of Poisson (first from the right) inscribed on the Eiffel Tower
Poisson's 1804 portrait by E. Marcellot, now in the collection of the École Polytechnique.
Poisson's equations for electricity (top) and magnetism (bottom) in SI units on the front cover of an undergraduate textbook.
Pierre-Simon Laplace
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Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace was a French polymath, a scholar whose work has been instrumental in the fields of physics, astronomy, mathematics, engineering, statistics, and philosophy. He summari
Pierre-Simon Laplace as chancellor of the Senate under the First French Empire
Portrait of Pierre-Simon Laplace by Johann Ernst Heinsius (1775)
The Calorimeter of Lavoisier and La Place, Encyclopaedia Londinensis, 1801
A. Lunar gravitational potential: this depicts the Moon directly over 30° N (or 30° S) viewed from above the Northern Hemisphere.