Germain was announced as one of 72 historical women in STEM whose names have been proposed to be added to the 72 men already celebrated on the Eiffel Tower
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Sophie Germain
Marie-Sophie Germain was a French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher. Despite initial opposition from her parents and difficulties presented by society, she gained education from books in her father's library, including ones by Euler, and from correspondence under the pseudonym of Monsieur Le Blanc with famous mathematicians, such as Lagrange, Legendre, and Gauss. One of the pioneers of ela…
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science · French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (1776–1831) · mathematician · physicist · philosopher · also Sophie Germain, Germain
Born 1 April 1776 · Died 27 June 1831 · Q7103
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2017· 1 entry
Published “GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral” in Physical Review Letters — cited 8,280 times.
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2016· 1 entry
Published “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger” in Physical Review Letters — cited 11,729 times.
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2003· 2 entries
Won: The Sophie Germain Prize (French (2003).
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Under the auspices of the Institut de France
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1837· 1 entry
Six years after Germain's death, Gauss lamented "she [Germain] proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something worthwhile in the most rigorous and abstract of the sciences and for that reason would well ha
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1831· 3 entries
Died 1831-06-27.
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Her "Mémoire sur la courbure des surfaces"
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Crelle's Journal published her paper on the curvature of elastic surfaces and "a note about finding y and z in
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1830· 1 entry
Studied at University of Göttingen, honorary doctorate (1830).
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1829· 1 entry
Germain learned that she had breast cancer
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1827· 1 entry
“Gauss's Abstract of the Disquisitiones Generales circa Superficies Curvas presented to the Royal Society of Gottingen”
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1826· 1 entry
Submitted a revised version of her 1821 essay to the academy
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1821· 3 entries
Cauchy said "[it] was a work for which the name of its author and the importance of the subject both deserved the attention of mathematicians"
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Of Germain's prize-winning essay "ranged from polite to indifferent"
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Mostly because she wanted to present her work in opposition to that of Poisson
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1815· 2 entries
Awarded Grand prix des sciences mathématiques (1815).
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After the elasticity contest, the academy offered a prize for a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem
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1814· 1 entry
Published his own work on elasticity and did not acknowledge Germain's help (although he had worked with her on the subject and, as a judge on the academy commission, had had access to her work)
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1776· 1 entry
Born 1776-04-01.
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