ORGANIZATION

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Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Maurice Allais	Economist	31-May-1911		Monopoly pricing and the Allais effect
Jean-Sylvain Bailly	Astronomer	15-Sep-1736	12-Nov-1793	Histoire de l'Astronomie
Paul Berg	Chemist	30-Jun-1926		Pioneer in recombinant DNA
Marcellin Berthelot	Chemist	27-Oct-1827	18-Mar-1907	Chimie organique fondée sur la synthèse
Claude-Louis Berthollet	Chemist	9-Dec-1748	6-Nov-1822	Essai de statique chimique
Jean-Baptiste Biot	Physicist	21-Apr-1774	3-Feb-1862	Biot-Savart Law
Brebis Bleaney	Physicist	6-Jun-1915	4-Nov-2006	Electron paramagnetic resonance
Yves Chauvin	Chemist	10-Oct-1930		Metathesis
Michel-Eugène Chevreul	Chemist	31-Aug-1786	9-Apr-1889	Chemistry of fats, dyes
Albert Claude	Scientist	23-Aug-1899	22-May-1983	Microstructure of the cell
John Dalton	Chemist	6-Sep-1766	27-Jul-1844	Early proponent of Atomic Theory
Jean Dausset	Scientist	19-Oct-1916		Recognition of HLA antigens
Peter B. Dervan	Chemist	28-Jun-1945		DNA Researcher
Henri Alexandre Deslandres	Astronomer	24-Jul-1853	15-Jan-1948	Spectroheliograph
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas	Chemist	14-Jul-1800	10-Apr-1884	Pioneer of organic chemistry
Leonhard Euler	Mathematician	15-Apr-1707	18-Sep-1783	The Elements of Euclid
Hans von Euler-Chelpin	Chemist	15-Feb-1873	7-Nov-1964	Enzymes of sugar fermentation
Albert Fert	Physicist	7-Mar-1938		Giant magnetoresistance
Léon Foucault	Physicist	19-Sep-1819	11-Feb-1868	Measured the speed of light
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier	Mathematician	21-Mar-1768	16-May-1830	Fourier series
Alfred Fowler	Astronomer	22-Mar-1868	24-Jun-1940	Celestial spectroscopy
Benjamin Franklin	Diplomat	17-Jan-1706	17-Apr-1790	American founding father
Augustin-Jean Fresnel	Physicist	10-May-1788	14-Jul-1827	Optician, invented Fresnel lens
Roger Guillemin	Scientist	11-Jan-1924		Hypothalamic hormones (brain peptides)
George W. Hill	Astronomer	3-Mar-1838	16-Apr-1914	A New Theorie of Jupiter and Saturn
Jacobus H. van 't Hoff	Chemist	30-Aug-1852	1-Mar-1911	Studied reaction rates, osmotic pressures
Nicholas J. Hoff	Engineer	3-Jan-1906	4-Aug-1997	Aluminum in aircraft design
Frédéric Joliot	Chemist	19-Mar-1900	14-Aug-1958	Researcher of radioactivity
Jacobus C. Kapteyn	Astronomer	19-Jan-1851	18-Jan-1922	Star streaming
Paul Karrer	Chemist	21-Apr-1889	18-Jun-1971	Studied pigments, beta-carotene, etc.
Nicolas Louis de Lacaille	Astronomer	15-May-1713	21-Mar-1762	Coelum Australe Stelliferum
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck	Biologist	1-Aug-1744	18-Dec-1829	Early invertebrate biologist, evolutionary theorist
Paul Langevin	Physicist	23-Jan-1872	19-Dec-1946	Studied piezoelectricity
Pierre-Simon Laplace	Mathematician	23-Mar-1749	5-Mar-1827	Traité du Mécanique Céleste
Alphonse Laveran	Doctor	18-Jun-1845	18-May-1922	Found the parasite that causes malaria
Bernard Lyot	Astronomer	27-Feb-1897	2-Apr-1952	Sandstorms on Mars
Keith Moffatt	Mathematician	12-Apr-1935		Fluid dynamics
Henri Moissan	Chemist	28-Sep-1852	20-Feb-1907	Isolated fluorine
Charles Nicolle	Scientist	21-Sep-1866	28-Feb-1936	Found that lice transmit typhus
Pief Panofsky	Physicist	24-Apr-1919	24-Sep-2007	Stanford Linear Accelerator
Norman F. Ramsey	Physicist	27-Aug-1915		Energy levels of atoms
C. N. R. Rao	Chemist	30-Jun-1934		Chemistry of superconductivity
Henri-Victor Regnault	Chemist	21-Jul-1810	19-Jan-1878	Properties of gases
Paul Sabatier	Chemist	5-Nov-1854	14-Aug-1941	Researcher of catalysis
Frank Schlesinger	Astronomer	11-May-1871	10-Jul-1943	Stellar parallaxes
George D. Snell	Scientist	19-Dec-1903	6-Jun-1996	Recognition of HLA antigens
Stephen Timoshenko	Engineer	23-Dec-1878	29-May-1972	Mechanical engineering professor at Stanford
Herbert Hall Turner	Astronomer	13-Aug-1861	20-Aug-1930	Stellar positions
Gabriele Veneziano	Physicist	20-Feb-1942		Father of string theory
James Watt	Inventor	19-Jan-1736	19-Aug-1819	Invented modern steam engine
Abraham Gottlob Werner	Geologist	25-Sep-1750	30-Jun-1817	Neptunist school of geology

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