Joseph Fourier
1768 CE–1830 CE · Yonne
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier (; French: [ʒɑ̃ batist ʒozɛf fuʁje]; 21 March 1768 – 16 May 1830) was a French mathematician and physicist born in Auxerre, Burgundy and best known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series, which eventually developed into Fourier analysis and harmonic analysis, and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations. The Fourier transform and Fourier's law of conduction are also named in his honour. Fourier is also generally credited with the discovery of the greenhouse effect.
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- William Herschel· 1738 CE–1822 CE
- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck· 1744 CE–1829 CE
- Alessandro Volta· 1745 CE–1827 CE
- Pierre-Simon Laplace· 1749 CE–1827 CE
- Edward Jenner· 1749 CE–1823 CE
- Caroline Herschel· 1750 CE–1848 CE
- John Dalton· 1766 CE–1844 CE
- Georges Cuvier· 1769 CE–1832 CE
- Alexander von Humboldt· 1769 CE–1859 CE
- Thomas Young· 1773 CE–1829 CE
- André-Marie Ampère· 1775 CE–1836 CE
- Amedeo Avogadro· 1776 CE–1856 CE
- Carl Friedrich Gauss· 1777 CE–1855 CE
- Humphry Davy· 1778 CE–1829 CE
- Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac· 1778 CE–1850 CE
- Jons Jacob Berzelius· 1779 CE–1848 CE
- Siméon Denis Poisson· 1781 CE–1840 CE
- Friedrich Bessel· 1784 CE–1846 CE
- Joseph von Fraunhofer· 1787 CE–1826 CE
- Augustin-Jean Fresnel· 1788 CE–1827 CE
- Georg Ohm· 1789 CE–1854 CE
- Sadi Carnot· 1796 CE–1832 CE
- Niels Henrik Abel· 1802 CE–1829 CE
- Évariste Galois· 1811 CE–1832 CE
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- Sacagawea· 1788 CE–1812 CE
- William IV· 1765 CE–1837 CE
- Alexander I· 1777 CE–1825 CE
- Charles X· 1757 CE–1836 CE
- Osei Bonsu· 1779 CE–1824 CE
- George IV· 1762 CE–1830 CE
- Black Hawk (Makataimeshekiakiak)· 1767 CE–1838 CE
- Napoleon Bonaparte· 1769 CE–1821 CE
- James Monroe· 1758 CE–1831 CE
- Agustín de Iturbide· 1783 CE–1824 CE
- James Madison· 1751 CE–1836 CE
- Mustafa IV· 1779 CE–1808 CE
- Cornplanter (Gaiänt'wakê)· 1750 CE–1836 CE
- Dingane· –1840 CE
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