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Academie des Sciences

Also Known As French Academy of Sciences
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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
1666 1
Founded DateSourced to the subject's own account
1666-12-22 1
Founder
Jean-Baptiste Colbert 1
Sourced 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
Paris, France 1
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Christiaan Huygens, Scientists

Huygens moved to Paris in 1666, the year of the Academie des Sciences founding, to take a leadership position there.

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1. French Academy of Sciences (Wikipedia)
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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.
  • History section
    He chose a small group of scholars who met on 22 December 1666 in the King's library, near the present-day Bibliotheque Nationale.
  • In Group: National Academies of Sciences, Lead
    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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Christiaan Huygens (Wikipedia)
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  • Has Member: Christiaan Huygens, Infobox, workplaces
    Infobox workplaces: Royal Society of London; French Academy of Sciences
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MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive: Henri Poincare - MacTutor biography
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He was elected to the Académie des Sciences in 1887
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MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive: Pierre-Simon Laplace - MacTutor biography
MacTutor History of Mathematics ArchiveHas Member: Pierre-Simon Laplace, Biography
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he was elected an adjoint in the Académie des Sciences
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MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive: Richard Dedekind - MacTutor biography
MacTutor History of Mathematics ArchiveHas Member: Richard Dedekind, Biography
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the Académie des Sciences in Paris (1900)
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Alfred Des Cloizeaux - Wikipedia
Has Member: Alfred Des Cloizeaux, Lead
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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.
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Yves Chauvin (Wikipedia)
WikipediaHas Member: Yves Chauvin, Lead section
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He was honorary research director at the Institut français du pétrole and a member of the French Academy of Sciences.
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Antoine Lavoisier (Wikipedia)
WikipediaHas Member: Antoine Lavoisier, Ferme générale and marriage
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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.
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Death
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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.
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Jean-Philippe Loys de Cheseaux (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Philippe Loys de Cheseaux, Biography
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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.
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Jean-Baptiste Elie de Beaumont, Wikipedia
Has Member: Jean-Baptiste Elie de Beaumont, Biography
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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).
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Adolphe d'Archiac, Wikipedia
Has Member: Adolphe d'Archiac, Magnum opus
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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.
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Charles Messier (Wikipedia)
WikipediaHas Member: Charles Messier, Career
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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.
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Wikipedia: Charles Barrois
Has Member: Charles Barrois, Life
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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.
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Hippolyte Fizeau (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Hippolyte Fizeau, Biography
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He became a member of the Académie des Sciences in 1860
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Jules A. Hoffmann (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Jules A. Hoffmann, Career, academie-des-sciences
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of the French Academy of Sciences
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Michel Talagrand (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Michel Talagrand, Career, academie-des-sciences
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Talagrand was elected as correspondent of the Académie des sciences of Paris in March 1997
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Claude Louis Berthollet (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Claude Louis Berthollet, Biography, Academy of Science
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an active participant of the Academy of Science in 1780
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Achille Richard (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Achille Richard, Biography, Academy of Sciences
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On 24 February 1834 he was made a member of the French Academy of Sciences (Botanical Section).
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Philibert Commerson (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Philibert Commerson, Institution 1
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the Paris Academy of Sciences elected him as a fellow botanist
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René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (Wikipedia)
Has Member: René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, Biography, membership
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elected a member of the Académie des Sciences
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Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, Biography, membership
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In 1723 he was admitted to the Académie des Sciences.
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Herman Boerhaave (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Herman Boerhaave, Biography, membership
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In 1728 he was elected into the French Academy of Sciences, and two years later into the Royal Society of London.
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Guillaume de l'Hôpital (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Guillaume de l'Hôpital, Biography, membership
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In 1693, l'Hôpital was elected to the French academy of sciences and even served twice as its vice-president.
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Edme Mariotte (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Edme Mariotte, Biography, membership
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He was one of the first members of the French Academy of Sciences founded at Paris in 1666.
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Jacques Cassini (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Jacques Cassini, Biography, membership
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admitted at the age of seventeen to membership of the French Academy of Sciences
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Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, Biography, membership
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He became a member of the Académie Royale des Sciences in Paris
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Jacques Ozanam (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Jacques Ozanam, Biography, membership
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He was elected a member of the Académie des Sciences in 1701
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Giovanni Poleni (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Giovanni Poleni, Biography, membership
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in 1739 the French Academy of Sciences made him a member
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Jean Richer (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Jean Richer, Biography, membership
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assistant (élève astronome) at the French Academy of Sciences
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Adrien Auzout (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Adrien Auzout, Biography, membership
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briefly a member of the Académie Royale des Sciences from 1666 to 1668
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Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, Biography, membership
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In 1697 he became perpetual secretary to the Academy of Sciences
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Bernard Frénicle de Bessy (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Bernard Frénicle de Bessy, Biography, membership
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including the French Academy of Sciences
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MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews: Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (MacTutor)
MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St AndrewsHas Member: Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, Life
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He was elected to the mechanics section of the Académie des Sciences as a result of this work, and he moved to Paris where he now held a permanent post.
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Eustachio Manfredi (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Eustachio Manfredi, Biography
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He was a member of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris from 1726
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Luigi Ferdinando Marsili (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli, Biography
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In 1715 he was named a Foreign Associate of the Paris Academy of Sciences
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Torbern Bergman (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Torbern Bergman, Career, Academie des Sciences
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In March 1782, he was elected Foreign Associate of the French Academy of Sciences.
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Emile Clapeyron (Wikipedia)
WikipediaHas Member: Emile Clapeyron, Honours, Academie des Sciences
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Member of the Académie des Sciences, (1858).
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Wilhelm Homberg (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Wilhelm Homberg, Life
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he was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences
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Pierre Varignon (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Pierre Varignon, Lead
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was elected to the Académie Royale des Sciences in the same year
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Philippe de La Hire (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Philippe de La Hire, Life
Quote, Has Member: Philippe de La Hire, Life
He became a member of French Academy of Sciences in 1678
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Michel Rolle (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Michel Rolle, Life
Quote, Has Member: Michel Rolle, Life
In 1685 he joined the Académie des Sciences in a very low-level position
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Joseph Sauveur (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Joseph Sauveur, Lead
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in 1696 became a member of the French Academy of Sciences
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Francesco Bianchini (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Francesco Bianchini, Life and work
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Bianchini was elected member of the French Academy of Sciences of Paris
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Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, Life
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In 1714 he entered the French Academy of Sciences
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Jean Hellot (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Jean Hellot, Lead
Quote, Has Member: Jean Hellot, Lead
he became an assistant chemist at the Academie Royale des Sciences
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Martin Folkes (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Martin Folkes, Life
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in 1742 he was made a member of the French Royal Academy of Sciences
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Jakob Hermann (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Jakob Hermann, Lead
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Hermann was elected to the Académie Royale des Sciences (Paris) in 1733
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Thomas Fantet de Lagny (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Thomas Fantet de Lagny, Biography
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he was named an associate of the Académie Royale des Sciences
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Pierre Magnol (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Pierre Magnol, Biography, membership
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held a seat in the Académie Royale des Sciences de Paris
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Gabriel-Philippe de La Hire (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Gabriel-Philippe de La Hire, Biography, Academy of Sciences
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He became an associate of the Academy of Sciences in 1699
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Charles François de Cisternay du Fay (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Charles François de Cisternay du Fay, Biography, Academy of Sciences
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He became a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1723
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Bernard de Jussieu (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Bernard de Jussieu, Biography, Academy of Sciences
Quote, Has Member: Bernard de Jussieu, Biography, Academy of Sciences
he was admitted into the French Academy of Sciences
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Claude Perrault (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Claude Perrault, Biography, Academy of Sciences
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became one of the first members of the French Academy of Sciences when it was founded in 1666
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Henri Pitot (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Henri Pitot, Work, Academy of Sciences
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In 1724, he became a member of the French Academy of Sciences
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Joseph Guichard Duverney (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Joseph Guichard Duverney, Biography, Academy
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In 1676 he became the anatomist at the Royal Academy of Sciences
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Domenico Guglielmini (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Domenico Guglielmini, Life, Academy of Sciences
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Guglielmini was elected an associated member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1686
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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Career, French Academy
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In 1734 he was admitted to the French Academy of Sciences.
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Jean-Baptiste Biot (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Jean-Baptiste Biot, Biography, French Academy
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three years later was elected as a member of the French Academy of Sciences
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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Infobox, workplaces
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Infobox workplaces: French Academy of Sciences; Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle; Jardin des Plantes
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