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Siméon Denis Poisson
Baron Siméon Denis Poisson was a French mathematician and physicist who worked on statistics, complex analysis, partial differential equations, the calculus of variations, analytical mechanics, electricity and magnetism, thermodynamics, elasticity, and fluid mechanics. Moreover, he predicted the Arago spot in his attempt to disprove the wave theory of Augustin-Jean Fresnel.
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science · French mathematician and physicist (1781–1840) · mathematician · astronomer · physicist · university teacher · politician · statistician · also Siméon Denis Poisson, Simeon Denis Poisson, Simeon-Denis Poisson, Denis Poisson, Poisson
Born 21 June 1781 · Died 25 April 1840 · Q190772
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An exhibit of some of the key works of Poisson, their critical evaluations, and continuations were put on display at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, and later at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champ
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1857· 1 entry
That Poisson brackets would eventually supplant those of Lagrange
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1840· 2 entries
Died 1840-04-25.
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Career landmark: president of the French Academy of Sciences (1840–1840).
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1837· 1 entry
Was made a peer of France, not for political reasons, but as a representative of French science
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1832· 1 entry
Won Copley Medal (1832).
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1829· 1 entry
Poisson independently obtained the same result
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1826· 1 entry
Career landmark: president of the French Academy of Sciences (1826–1826).
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1825· 1 entry
But he neither took out the diploma nor used the title
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1823· 1 entry
Poisson redid his teacher's work and reached the same results without resorting to complex hypotheses previously employed by Laplace
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1822· 2 entries
Awarded Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1822).
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A Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 1823 a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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1821· 1 entry
Using an analogy with elastic bodies, Claude-Louis Navier arrived at the basic equations of motion for viscous fluids, now identified as the Navier–Stokes equations
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1820· 2 entries
Hans Christian Ørsted demonstrated that it was possible to deflect a magnetic needle by closing or opening an electric circuit nearby, resulting in a deluge of published papers attempting to explain the phenomenon
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Poisson studied integrations along paths in the complex plane, becoming the first person to do so
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1818· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1818).
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1817· 2 entries
Married Nancy de Bardi and had four children with her
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Augustin-Jean Fresnel submitted a paper for a grand prize of the French Academy of Science on the phenomenon of diffraction
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1812· 2 entries
Poisson adopted this idea and obtained the appropriate expression for electricity, which relates the potential function
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Examiner at the military school (École Militaire) at Saint-Cyr in 1815, graduation examiner at the École Polytechnique in 1816, councillor of the university in 1820, and geometer to the Bureau des Longitudes succeeding L
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1810· 1 entry
Awarded Lalande Prize (1810).
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1809· 1 entry
Poisson introduced a new expression now named after him
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1808· 1 entry
Became astronomer to the Bureau des Longitudes; and when the Faculté des sciences de Paris was instituted in 1809 he was appointed a professor of rational mechanics (professeur de mécanique rationelle)
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1802· 1 entry
And, in 1806 full professor succeeding Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, whom Napoleon had sent to Grenoble
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1800· 1 entry
Studied at École polytechnique (1798–1800).
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1781· 1 entry
Born 1781-06-21.
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