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Claude-Louis Navier
Claude-Louis Navier was a French civil engineer, affiliated with the French government, and a physicist who specialized in continuum mechanics.
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science · French engineer and physicist (1785–1836) · physicist · economist · mathematician · engineer of the French Corps of Bridges and Roads · civil engineer · engineer · also Claude-Louis Navier, Claude Louis Marie Henri Navier, Navier
Born 10 February 1785 · Died 21 August 1836 · Q313512
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2026· 2 entries
MutualArt.com: Claude-louis Navier
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1836· 1 entry
Died 1836-08-21.
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1831· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1831).
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1830· 1 entry
Took up a professorship at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, and in the following year succeeded the exiled Augustin Louis Cauchy as professor of calculus and mechanics at the École polytechnique
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1824· 1 entry
Navier was admitted into the French Academy of Sciences
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1819· 1 entry
Succeeded in determining the zero line of mechanical stress, finally correcting Galileo Galilei's incorrect results, and in 1826 he established the elastic modulus as a property of materials independent of the second
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1806· 1 entry
Studied at École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (1804–1806).
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1804· 1 entry
Studied at École polytechnique (1802–1804).
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1802· 1 entry
Navier enrolled at the École polytechnique, and in 1804 continued his studies at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, from which he graduated in 1806
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1785· 1 entry
Born 1785-02-10.
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