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François Arago
Dominique François Jean Arago, known simply as François Arago, was a French mathematician, physicist, astronomer, freemason, supporter of the Carbonari revolutionaries, and politician.
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science · French physicist and astronomer (1786–1853) · astronomer · mathematician · physicist · politician · university teacher · biographer · writer · also François Arago, Francois Arago, Arago
Born 26 February 1786 · Died 2 October 1853 · Q154353
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2025· 1 entry
2024· 1 entry
Radio France Internationale: François Arago: The scientist and statesman who shaped science and society
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1987· 1 entry
As a tribute to the astronomer François Arago (1786–1853)
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1853· 1 entry
Died 1853-10-02.
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1850· 1 entry
Won Rumford Medal (1850).
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1849· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour (1849).
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1848· 3 entries
Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (1848–1851).
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Career landmark: head of government of France (1848–1848).
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Career landmark: Minister of War (1848–1848).
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1842· 1 entry
Awarded Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order (1842).
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1841· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the Order of Leopold (1841).
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1840· 1 entry
Career landmark: president of the Société des gens de lettres (1840–1844).
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1839· 2 entries
Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1839).
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Arago reported to stunned listeners of a joint meeting of the academies of Arts and Sciences
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1838· 2 entries
But his failing eyesight prevented his arranging the details or making the experiments
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Communicated to the Academy the details of his apparatus, which utilized the relaying mirrors employed by Charles Wheatstone in 1835 for measuring the velocity of the electric discharge; but owing to the great care re
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1837· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (1837).
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1834· 2 entries
Awarded citizen of Edinburgh (1834).
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Arago again visited Scotland, to attend the meeting of the British Association at Edinburgh
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1832· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1832).
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1831· 1 entry
Career landmark: Member of the Chambre des députés des départements (1831–1848).
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1830· 2 entries
Arago, who always professed liberal opinions of the republican type, was elected a member of the chamber of deputies for the Pyrénées-Orientales département, and he employed his talents of eloquence and scientific knowle
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Arago also was appointed director of the Observatory, and as a member of the chamber of deputies he was able to obtain grants of money for rebuilding it in part, and for the addition of magnificent instruments
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1828· 1 entry
Was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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1827· 1 entry
Was elected an associated member of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands, when that institute became the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1851, he became foreign member
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1825· 3 entries
Won Copley Medal (1825).
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Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1825).
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Was followed by another, that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, which he called "magnetism of rotation" but (after Faraday's explanation of 1832) is now kn
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1824· 1 entry
Career landmark: president of the French Academy of Sciences (1824–1824).
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1818· 3 entries
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1818).
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Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1818).
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Or 1819 he proceeded along with Biot to execute geodetic operations on the coasts of France, England and Scotland
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1815· 1 entry
Awarded Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1815).
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1806· 1 entry
And began operations along the mountains of Spain
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1805· 1 entry
Studied at École polytechnique (1803–1805).
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1804· 2 entries
Through the advice and recommendation of Siméon Poisson, he received the appointment of secretary to the Paris Observatory
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(the meridian arc of Delambre and Méchain)
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1803· 1 entry
Studied at Lycée François-Arago (1803).
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1786· 1 entry
Born 1786-02-26.
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