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Louis Poinsot
Louis Poinsot was a French mathematician and physicist. Poinsot was the inventor of geometrical mechanics, showing how a system of forces acting on a rigid body could be resolved into a single force and a couple.
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science · French mathematician and physicist (1777–1859) · mathematician · physicist · politician · university teacher · also Louis Poinsot, Poinsot
Born 3 January 1777 · Died 5 December 1859 · Q382107
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1859· 1 entry
Died 1859-12-05.
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1858· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1858).
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1852· 1 entry
Career landmark: Second Empire senator (1852).
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1846· 3 entries
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1846).
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Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Peers (1846).
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Was awarded an Officer of the Legion of Honor, and on the formation of the Senate in 1852 he was chosen a member of that body
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1840· 1 entry
Became a member of the superior council of public instruction
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1816· 1 entry
When they re-organized, but he did become admissions examiner and held that for another 10 years
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1813· 1 entry
Poinsot was elected to fill his place at the Académie des Sciences
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1810· 1 entry
Cauchy proved, using Poinsot's definition of regular, that the enumeration of regular star polyhedra is complete
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1808· 1 entry
Career landmark: Inspector general of the Éducation nationale (1808–1824).
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1797· 2 entries
Studied at École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (1797).
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Studied at École polytechnique (1794–1797).
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1793· 1 entry
Studied at Lycée Louis-le-Grand (1789–1793).
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1777· 1 entry
Born 1777-01-03.
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