Category
page 1French physicists
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
Joseph Fourier
French mathematician and physicist (1768 – 1830)
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749–1827)
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
French physicist (1736-1806)
Gustave Le Bon
French psychologist (1841-1931)
Albert Fert
French physicist, Nobel laureate in physics
Alfred Kastler
French physicist (1902–1984)
François Arago
French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician (1786-1853)
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
French physicist (1933-)
Sophie Germain
French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (1776-1831)
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
French physicist
Émilie du Châtelet
Era chiná physicist, and author (1706-1749)
Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis
French mathematician, mechanical engineer, and scientist (1792–1843)
Gérard Mourou
French physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics 2018
Paul Langevin
French physicist, philosopher of science and pedagogue (1872-1946)
Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters
Hippolyte Fizeau
French physicist (1819–1896)
Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron
French physicist (1799-1864)
Étienne-Louis Malus
French officer, engineer, physicist, and mathematician (1775-1812)
Claude-Louis Navier
French engineer and physicist (1785–1836)
Michel Devoret
French physicist
Félix Savart
French physicist (1791–1841)
Marguerite Perey
French physicist (1909–1975)
Jean Charles Athanase Peltier
French physicist (1785-1845)
Jules Jamin
French physicist (1818-1886)
Marie Alfred Cornu
French physicist (1841–1902)
Jean-Antoine Nollet
French clergyman and physicist (1700-1770)
Louis Paul Cailletet
French physicist (1832–1913)
Arthur Morin
French physicist (1795-1880)
Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt
early investigator of magnetism
Jean-Marie Duhamel
French mathematician and physicist
Alfred Perot
French physicist (1863-1925)
Pierre Weiss
French physicist (1865-1940)
Alexis Thérèse Petit
French physicist (1791–1820)
Valérie Masson-Delmotte
French engineer and climatologist
Hubert Curien
French physicist
Jean Malaurie
French anthropologist and geographer (1922–2024)
Georges Sagnac
French physicist who lent his name to the Sagnac effect (1869–1928)
Éleuthère Mascart
French physicist (1837–1908)
Jacques Friedel
French physicist (1921–2014)
Joseph Sauveur
French mathematician and founder of the science of acoustics (1653–1716)
Jules Violle
French physicist (1841-1923)
Francis Perrin
French physicist
Aimé Cotton
French physicist (1869–1951)
Maurice Couette
French physicist known for his studies of fluidity (1858–1943)
Charles Cagniard de la Tour
French physicist and imperial councillor
Philippe Nozières
French physicist (1932–2022)
Paul de Casteljau
French mathematician and engineer (1930–2022)
Marie-Antoinette Tonnelat
French physicist (1912–1980)
Jean-Pierre Vigier
French physicist (1920–2004)
Hans von Halban
French physicist (1908–1964)
Louis Georges Gouy
French physicist (1854–1926)
Louis Leprince-Ringuet
French physicist, telecommunications engineer, essayist and historian of science (1901–2000)
Gustave-Adolphe Hirn
French physicist (1815–1890)
Alfred-Marie Liénard
French physicist (1869–1958)
Thomas-François Dalibard
French physicist
Étienne Klein
French Philosopher of Science, epistemologist
Lew Kowarski
French physicist (1907-1979)
Lucien Vidi
French physicist (1805–1866)
Jacques Rohault
French scientist