Émilie du Châtelet
Also known as Emilie du Chatelet, Marquise de Du Châtelet, Gabrielle-Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil du Châtelet, Gabrielle-Emilie du Châtelet-Lomont, Gabrielle-Emilie de Breteuil Marchioness du Chatelet, Marquise de Châtelet, Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise du Châtelet
Era chiná physicist, and author (1706-1749)
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Émilie du Châtelet was an 18th-century French physicist and author who made important contributions to the study of energy and physics during the Enlightenment. She matters because she was one of the few women of her time to achieve recognition as a serious scientist and scholar, advancing scientific knowledge in a field dominated by men.
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- Art of Happiness
- Selected Philosophical and Scientific Writings
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