Category:Louis Poinsot

**Louis Poinsot**
	French mathematician and physicist (1777-1859)
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Name in native language	Louis Poinsot;
Date of birth	3 January 1777; Paris (Kingdom of France)
Date of death	5 December 1859; Paris (France)
Place of burial	Père Lachaise Cemetery (4, Grave of Poinsot (Père-Lachaise, division 4)); Grave of Poinsot;
Country of citizenship	France;
Educated at	École polytechnique (1794–); École des Ponts ParisTech (1797–); Lycée Louis-le-Grand (1789–1793);
Occupation	mathematician; physicist; politician; university teacher;
Employer	Lycée Condorcet; École polytechnique (mathematical analysis, 1809–1811); Bureau des Longitudes (1839–);
Member of	Royal Society; French Academy of Sciences (1813–); Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences; Academy of Sciences of Turin (1841–);
Position held	Second Empire senator (1852–); member of the Chamber of Peers (1852–); Inspector general of the Éducation nationale (1808–1824);
Field of work	analytical mechanics;
Native language	French;
Award received	Knight of the Legion of Honour; Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1858); 72 names on the Eiffel Tower;
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	Q382107; ISNI: 0000000108643711; VIAF ID: 4935248; GND ID: 117688274; Library of Congress authority ID: nb2003103094; Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 119201147; IdRef ID: 027077144; Libraries Australia ID: 35688434; NL CR AUT ID: js2007409728; National Library of Israel ID (old): 000547851; Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID: 090431472; NUKAT ID: n2004015915; PLWABN ID: 9810616115305606; National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007286834505171; NACSIS-CAT author ID: DA09547130; SBN author ID: MILV295928; Open Library ID: OL1940191A; Mathematics Genealogy Project ID: 293426
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