The Academie des Sciences is the French academy of sciences, founded in Paris in 1666 at the urging of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV's minister of finance, to bring the kingdom's leading natural philosophers together under royal patronage. It met privately at first and was reorganised with formal statutes in 1699. Alongside the Royal Society in London, it was one of the two institutions that gave the scientific societies of the seventeenth century their lasting, organised form, publishing findings, corresponding across national lines, and judging priority disputes between rival claimants.
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Founded YearSourced to the subject's own account Founded DateSourced to the subject's own account FounderSourced to the subject's own accountColbert, Louis XIV's minister of finance, proposed and organised the Academie's founding rather than being a practicing scientist himself; the working members he assembled did the science. SeatSourced to the subject's own account Academie des Sciences
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Huygens moved to Paris in 1666, the year of the Academie des Sciences founding, to take a leadership position there.
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founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research.
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He chose a small group of scholars who met on 22 December 1666 in the King's library, near the present-day Bibliotheque Nationale.
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is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research
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Infobox workplaces: Royal Society of London; French Academy of Sciences
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He was elected to the Académie des Sciences in 1887
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he was elected an adjoint in the Académie des Sciences
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the Académie des Sciences in Paris (1900)
Alfred Des Cloizeaux - Wikipedia
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Des Cloizeaux was elected as a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1869, and was its president in 1889.
Yves Chauvin (Wikipedia)
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He was honorary research director at the Institut français du pétrole and a member of the French Academy of Sciences.
Antoine Lavoisier (Wikipedia)
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At the age of 26, around the time he was elected to the Academy of Sciences, Lavoisier bought a share in the Ferme générale, a tax farming financial company which advanced the estimated tax revenue to the royal government in return for the right to collect the taxes.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (Wikipedia)
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He was, however, eulogized by Fontenelle, before the French Academy of Sciences in Paris, which had admitted him as a foreign member in 1700.
Jean-Philippe Loys de Cheseaux (Wikipedia)
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From 1747, Loys de Cheseaux was a corresponding member of the science academies of Göttingen, Saint Petersburg and Stockholm, as well as the French Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society of London.
Jean-Baptiste Elie de Beaumont, Wikipedia
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His growing scientific reputation secured his election to the membership of the Academy of Berlin, of the French Academy of Sciences, of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1845), of the Royal Society of London, as a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1848), and as an international member of the American Philosophical Society (1860).
Adolphe d'Archiac, Wikipedia
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In 1857 he was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences, and in 1861 he was appointed professor of paleontology in the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris.
Charles Messier (Wikipedia)
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In 1764, Messier was made a fellow of the Royal Society; in 1769, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; and on 30 June 1770, he was elected to the French Academy of Sciences.
Wikipedia: Charles Barrois
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He was chosen member of the institute (Academy of Sciences) in 1904 and a Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London.
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (Wikipedia)
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Infobox workplaces: French Academy of Sciences; Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle; Jardin des Plantes
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