Died 1863-03-30.
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Auguste Bravais
Auguste Bravais was a French physicist known for his work in crystallography, the conception of Bravais lattices, and the formulation of Bravais law. Bravais also studied magnetism, the northern lights, meteorology, geobotany, phyllotaxis, astronomy, statistics and hydrography.
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science · French physicist · physicist · university teacher · crystallographer · mathematician · astronomer · botanist · botanical collector · also Auguste Bravais, Bravais
Born 23 August 1811 · Died 30 March 1863 · Q351400
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1856· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1856).
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1844· 1 entry
Published a paper on the statistical concept of correlation, and arrived at a definition of the product-moment correlation coefficient before Karl Pearson
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1829· 1 entry
Where he was a classmate of groundbreaking mathematician Évariste Galois, whom Bravais actually beat in a scholastic mathematics competition
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1811· 1 entry
Born 1811-08-23.
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