ORGANIZATION

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Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Maurice Allais	Economist	31-May-1911	9-Oct-2010	Monopoly pricing and the Allais effect
Jean-Sylvain Bailly	Astronomer	15-Sep-1736	12-Nov-1793	Histoire de l'Astronomie
Henri Becquerel	Physicist	15-Dec-1852	25-Aug-1908	Discoverer of radioactivity
Paul Berg	Chemist	30-Jun-1926		Pioneer in recombinant DNA
Daniel Bernoulli	Mathematician	8-Feb-1700	27-Mar-1782	Fluid dynamics
Marcellin Berthelot	Chemist	27-Oct-1827	18-Mar-1907	Chimie organique fondée sur la synthèse
Claude-Louis Berthollet	Chemist	9-Dec-1748	6-Nov-1822	Essai de statique chimique
Jean-Baptiste Biot	Physicist	21-Apr-1774	3-Feb-1862	Biot-Savart Law
Brebis Bleaney	Physicist	6-Jun-1915	4-Nov-2006	Electron paramagnetic resonance
Nicolaas Bloembergen	Physicist	11-Mar-1920		Nonlinear optics
Louis de Broglie	Physicist	15-Aug-1892	19-Mar-1987	Discovered the wave nature of electrons
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon	Naturalist	7-Sep-1707	16-Apr-1788	Histoire Naturelle
Élie Cartan	Mathematician	9-Apr-1869	6-May-1951	Spinor groups
Henri Cartan	Mathematician	8-Jul-1904	13-Aug-2008	Leader of the math Bourbakistes
Augustin-Louis Cauchy	Mathematician	21-Aug-1789	23-May-1857	Infinitesimals, theory of substitution groups
Jean-Martin Charcot	Doctor	29-Nov-1825	16-Aug-1893	Father of neurology
Georges Charpak	Physicist	1-Aug-1924	29-Sep-2010	Subatomic particle detectors
Yves Chauvin	Chemist	10-Oct-1930	27-Jan-2015	Metathesis
Michel-Eugène Chevreul	Chemist	31-Aug-1786	9-Apr-1889	Chemistry of fats, dyes
Albert Claude	Scientist	23-Aug-1899	22-May-1983	Microstructure of the cell
Gustave-Gaspard Coriolis	Mathematician	21-May-1792	19-Sep-1843	Coriolis force
John Dalton	Chemist	6-Sep-1766	27-Jul-1844	Early proponent of Atomic Theory
Jean Dausset	Scientist	19-Oct-1916	6-Jun-2009	Recognition of HLA antigens
Peter B. Dervan	Chemist	28-Jun-1945		DNA Researcher
Henri Alexandre Deslandres	Astronomer	24-Jul-1853	15-Jan-1948	Spectroheliograph
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas	Chemist	14-Jul-1800	10-Apr-1884	Pioneer of organic chemistry
Leonhard Euler	Mathematician	15-Apr-1707	18-Sep-1783	The Elements of Euclid
Hans von Euler-Chelpin	Chemist	15-Feb-1873	7-Nov-1964	Enzymes of sugar fermentation
Albert Fert	Physicist	7-Mar-1938		Giant magnetoresistance
Léon Foucault	Physicist	19-Sep-1819	11-Feb-1868	Measured the speed of light
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier	Mathematician	21-Mar-1768	16-May-1830	Fourier series
Alfred Fowler	Astronomer	22-Mar-1868	24-Jun-1940	Celestial spectroscopy
Benjamin Franklin	Diplomat	17-Jan-1706	17-Apr-1790	American founding father
Maurice Fréchet	Mathematician	2-Sep-1878	4-Jun-1973	Fréchet differential
Augustin-Jean Fresnel	Physicist	10-May-1788	14-Jul-1827	Optician, invented Fresnel lens
Israel Gelfand	Mathematician	2-Sep-1913	5-Oct-2009	Banach algebras, Lie groups
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes	Physicist	24-Oct-1932	18-May-2007	Molecular structure of polymers
Kurt Gödel	Mathematician	28-Apr-1906	14-Jan-1978	Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems
Victor Grignard	Chemist	6-May-1871	13-Dec-1935	Grignard Reaction
Roger Guillemin	Scientist	11-Jan-1924		Hypothalamic hormones (brain peptides)
George W. Hill	Astronomer	3-Mar-1838	16-Apr-1914	A New Theorie of Jupiter and Saturn
Jacobus H. van 't Hoff	Chemist	30-Aug-1852	1-Mar-1911	Three-dimensional molecular properties
Nicholas J. Hoff	Engineer	3-Jan-1906	4-Aug-1997	Aluminum in aircraft design
Jules A. Hoffmann	Biologist	2-Aug-1941		Innate immunity
Kiyoshi Ito	Mathematician	7-Sep-1915	10-Nov-2008	Ito Calculus
Frédéric Joliot	Physicist	19-Mar-1900	14-Aug-1958	Artificial radioactivity
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes	Physicist	21-Sep-1853	21-Feb-1926	Liquefied helium and discovered superconductivity
Jacobus C. Kapteyn	Astronomer	19-Jan-1851	18-Jun-1922	Star streaming
Paul Karrer	Chemist	21-Apr-1889	18-Jun-1971	Synthesized vitamins A, B2, E, and K
Alfred Kastler	Physicist	3-May-1902	7-Jan-1984	Optical pumping
Aaron Klug	Chemist	11-Aug-1926		Structural analysis of viruses
Donald E. Knuth	Computer Programmer	10-Jan-1938		The Art of Computer Programming
Robert Koch	Doctor	11-Dec-1843	27-May-1910	Germ theory of disease
Nicolas Louis de Lacaille	Astronomer	15-May-1713	21-Mar-1762	Coelum Australe Stelliferum
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck	Biologist	1-Aug-1744	18-Dec-1829	Early invertebrate biologist, evolutionary theorist
Paul Langevin	Physicist	23-Jan-1872	19-Dec-1946	Studied piezoelectricity
Pierre-Simon Laplace	Mathematician	23-Mar-1749	5-Mar-1827	Traité du Mécanique Céleste
Alphonse Laveran	Doctor	18-Jun-1845	18-May-1922	Found the parasite that causes malaria
Jean-Marie Lehn	Chemist	30-Sep-1939		Synthesis of molecules
Luis Leloir	Chemist	6-Sep-1906	2-Dec-1987	Conversion of carbohydrates
Gabriel Lippmann	Physicist	16-Aug-1845	13-Jul-1921	Photographic color plate
Louis Lumière	Inventor	5-Oct-1864	6-Jun-1948	Inventor of motion pictures
Bernard Lyot	Astronomer	27-Feb-1897	2-Apr-1952	Sandstorms on Mars
Charles Messier	Astronomer	26-Jun-1730	12-Apr-1817	Cataloguer of M objects
Albert A. Michelson	Physicist	19-Dec-1852	9-May-1931	Measured the speed of light
Peter Mitchell	Chemist	29-Sep-1920	10-Apr-1992	ADP to ATP conversion in mitochondria
August Möbius	Astronomer	17-Nov-1790	26-Sep-1868	Möbius strip
Keith Moffatt	Mathematician	12-Apr-1935		Fluid dynamics
Henri Moissan	Chemist	28-Sep-1852	20-Feb-1907	Isolated fluorine
Luc Montagnier	Scientist	18-Aug-1932		Co-Discoverer of HIV
Giulio Natta	Chemist	26-Feb-1903	2-May-1979	Ziegler-Natta catalysts for polymerization
Louis Néel	Physicist	22-Nov-1904	17-Nov-2000	Magnetic properties of solids
Charles Nicolle	Scientist	21-Sep-1866	28-Feb-1936	Found that lice transmit typhus
Pief Panofsky	Physicist	24-Apr-1919	24-Sep-2007	Stanford Linear Accelerator
Philippe Pinel	Psychiatrist	20-Apr-1745	25-Oct-1826	Unchained the insane
Norman F. Ramsey	Physicist	27-Aug-1915	4-Nov-2011	Energy levels of atoms
C. N. R. Rao	Chemist	30-Jun-1934		Chemistry of superconductivity
Henri-Victor Regnault	Chemist	21-Jul-1810	19-Jan-1878	Properties of gases
Paul Sabatier	Chemist	5-Nov-1854	14-Aug-1941	Heterogeneous catalysis
Frank Schlesinger	Astronomer	11-May-1871	10-Jul-1943	Stellar parallaxes
Manne Siegbahn	Physicist	3-Dec-1886	26-Sep-1978	X-Ray spectroscopy
George D. Snell	Scientist	19-Dec-1903	6-Jun-1996	Recognition of HLA antigens
Wendell M. Stanley	Chemist	16-Aug-1904	15-Jun-1971	First to crystallize a virus
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin	Philosopher	1-May-1881	10-Apr-1955	The Phenomenon of Man
Stephen Timoshenko	Engineer	23-Dec-1878	29-May-1972	Mechanical engineering professor at Stanford
Herbert Hall Turner	Astronomer	13-Aug-1861	20-Aug-1930	Stellar positions
John H. van Vleck	Physicist	13-Mar-1899	27-Oct-1980	Quantum theory of paramagnetism
Gabriele Veneziano	Physicist	20-Feb-1942		Father of string theory
James Watt	Inventor	19-Jan-1736	19-Aug-1819	Invented modern steam engine
Abraham Gottlob Werner	Geologist	25-Sep-1750	30-Jun-1817	Neptunist school of geology
Georg Wittig	Chemist	16-Jun-1897	26-Aug-1987	Wittig Reaction
Thomas Young	Physicist	13-Jun-1773	10-May-1829	Wave Theory of Light
Ahmed H. Zewail	Chemist	26-Feb-1946		Femtochemistry

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