Category
page 1Scientists from Paris
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859–1906)
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
Henri Becquerel
French physicist (1852–1908)
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897–1956)
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi.
French virologist and Nobel laureate, co-discoverer of HIV
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1900-1958)
Henri Moissan
French chemist (1852–1907)
Jacques Monod
French biologist and biochemist, Nobel laureate (1910-1976)
Jean-Baptiste Biot
French scientist (1774-1862)
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)
Baruj Benacerraf
Venezuelan-American immunologist
Anne L'Huillier
French physicist
Adrien-Marie Legendre
French mathematician (1752–1833)
Jean-Pierre Sauvage
French nanotechnologist
Hippolyte Fizeau
French physicist (1819–1896)
Louis-Antoine de Bougainville
French admiral and explorer (1729–1811)
Marcellin Berthelot
French chemist and politician (1827-1907)
Henry Louis Le Châtelier
French chemist (1850–1936)
Alexis Clairaut
French mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist (*1713 – †1765)
Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron
French physicist (1799-1864)
Charles Lucien Bonaparte
French noble, biologist, politician and art collector (1803–1857)
Pierre Janssen
French astronomer (1824-1907)
André Weil
French mathematician (1906-1998)
Jean Sylvain Bailly
French astronomer, mathematician, freemason, and political leader (1736-1793)
Laurent Schwartz
French mathematician (1915-2002)
Jacques Cassini
French astronomer
Pierre Duhem
French physicist and historian of science (1861-1916)
Charles Émile Picard
French mathematician (1856-1941)
Edmond Becquerel
French physicist (1820-1891)
Charles Marie de La Condamine
French explorer, geographer, and mathematician (1701-1774)
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
French mathematician (1957-2016)
Joseph Bertrand
French mathematician (1822-1900)
Louis Poinsot
French mathematician and physicist (1777-1859)
Joseph Babinski
French neurologist (1857-1932)
Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville
French cartographer and geographer (1697–1782)
Hubert Reeves
Canadian astrophysicist and popularizer of science (1932–2023)
Anselme Payen
French chemist
Bernard Lyot
French astronomer (1897-1952)
Nicole-Reine Lepaute
French astronomer (1723-1788)
Joseph-Nicolas Delisle
French astronomer
Jean Rouch
French film director and ethnologist (1917–2004)
Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy
French chemist (1755-1809)
Yves Meyer
French mathematician
Jean-Baptiste Boussingault
French chemist who made significant contributions to agricultural science, petroleum science and metallurgy (1801–1887)
René-Louis Baire
French mathematician (1874-1932)
Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
French zoologist (1805-1861)
Maurice de Broglie
French physicist (1875-1960)
Philippe de La Hire
French mathematician and astronomer (1640-1718)
Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde
French mathematician
Gabriel Bibron
French herpetologist and zoologist (1805–1848)
Alphonse Milne-Edwards
Anglo-French zoologist (1835-1900)
Pierre Joseph Pelletier
French chemist (1788-1842)
Adrien-Henri de Jussieu
French botanist (1797-1853)
François Marie Daudin
French zoologist (1776–1803)
Jean-Dominique, comte de Cassini
French astronomer
Georges Claude
French engineer and inventor (1870–1960)
Jean Victor Audouin
French naturalist, an entomologist, ornithologist and malacologist (1797-1841)
Claude Allègre
French politician and geochemist (1937–2025)