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Born June 10, 1803 • Dijon • France
Died January 3, 1858 (aged 54) • Paris • France
Subjects Of Study Darcy’s Law • groundwater flow
Jacques Anquetil
French cyclist
Serge Klarsfeld
French political activist
Philipp Forchheimer
Austrian engineer
Saint-Clément Aqueduct
Henri Pitot
French engineer and inventor
Antoine de Chézy
French engineer
Pierre-Louis-Georges Du Buat
French engineer
Bernard Forest de Belidor
French engineer
William George Armstrong, c. 1870
William George Armstrong, Baron Armstrong
British engineer
James Bicheno Francis
James Bicheno Francis
British-American engineer
Robert E. Horton
American engineer
Marion King Hubbert
American geophysicist
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Pierre Ayraut
French jurist
Caresse Crosby
French poet and publisher
François-Ambroise Didot
French printer and typesetter
Charles Couperin
French composer
Arnaud-Michel d’Abbadie
French geographer
Catherine Arnauld
French nun
Jean de Brunhoff
French author
François Didot
French printer and bookseller