One of the greatest scientists of the 1700s and 1800s was a man named Joseph L. Proust. He was a French chemist who was born on September 26, 1754 in Angers, France and died on July 5, 1826 in Angers, France. Proust changed science as everyone before him knew it. His ideas at the time were not held too highly for what they were. Nowadays, people view him as one of the greatest chemists of the past in terms of atomic structure. He is well known for his theory of definite composition that he came up with in 1793. This theory states that the percent composition of any sample of a substance is the same. In order to come up with this theory, Proust conducted a series of experiments with a lot of research behind it. One of the most successful experiments that backed up his theory was with the oxides of iron in 1797. He started out his life as the second son of an apothecary, Joseph Proust. As a child he worked to become an apothecary like his father. He had worked for this goal in Angers first and then in Paris. Proust received his education in his early years from his godparents and extended his education at the local Oratorian college. At the time, he was apprenticed to his father to …show more content…
They never had any children. While in Segovia, he started to publish his papers on definite proportions. In 1816, Proust was elected to the French Academy of Sciences to succeed Louis Bernard Guyton de Morveau. After his wife died in 1817, he moved back to Angers where he took over a pharmacy owned by his brother, Joachim, who was poor in health. After this in 1819, he was made the chevalier of the Legion of Honour and he was granted a pension by Louis XVIII in 1820. Overall, Proust’s work changed science forever because scientists could now use the information that no matter what the percentage of composition that a sample of a substance contains, it will be the same for that
John Dalton John Dalton, born 6th September 1766, is known for developing the theory of the elements and compounds, atomic mass and weights and his research in colour blindness. He was born in Eaglesfield, Cumberland (now known as Cumbria). In school he was so successful that at the age of 12 he became a teacher. In 1785 he became one of the principles and in 1787 he made a journal that was later made into a book, describing his thoughts on mixtures of gases and how each gas acted independently and the mixtures pressure (which is the same as the gases volume if it had one). Therefore, the law of partial pressure was made.
Paul Cezanne was a French artist born January 19th 1839. Cezanne was considered a Post-Impressionist painter that also helped with the development of the Cubist style. He was born in Aix-en-Provence a small southern French town and was the son of a wealthy banker, Louis-Auguste Cezanne. His mother was Anne Elisabeth Honorine Aubert. He also had two little sisters, Marie and Rose. Paul started going to Saint Joseph school in Aix, when he was just ten. In 1857 Paul started studying drawing from a Spanish Monk named, Joseph Gibert, at the Free Municipal School of Drawing in Aix. His father wanted him to obtain a lucrative profession, so in 1858 he began attending the University of Aix, studying law; still taking art classes. After about a year studying law, Cezanne finally decided to tell his father he wanted to move to Paris to pursue a profession as an artist. His father was not pleased with his decision, but eventually agreed.
Francis Bacon ~ used the scientific method to conduct experiments, he is known as a father of modern science for this.
His education was at the University of Poitiers, where he took practice of law in his hometown. Soon he rose to prominence by the astute legal services to prominent people (Parshall 1).
The main theory of the day, with regard to physical science, was Atomism. Atomists believed that bodies are made from minute particles. Further, they believed that the particles and the bodies made from them, possess primary and not secondary properties. The most important exception from this viewpoint was that of Descartes. Although he rejected atomism, he did agree that bodies only really possess primary qualities. Basically what this means is that bodies in themselves possess shape, size, motion and impenetrability but not colour, sound, taste, hardness or smell. This latter g...
At the age of 21, his intestinal operation led to appendicitis. Henri was on bed rest for most of 1890 and to help him occupy his time, his mother bought him a set of paints. That was the turning point in Henri’s life. He decided to give up his career in law for a career in art. Matisse himself said, “It was as if I had been called. Henceforth I did not lead my life. It led me” (Getlein 80). Soon after, Henri began to take classes at the Academie Julian to prepare himself for the entrance examination at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts (Essers 7). Henri failed his first attempt, leading to his departure from the Academie. He then enrolled at the Ecole des Arts decoratifs and that is where his friendship with Albert Marquet began. They started working alongside of Gustave Moreau, a distinguished teacher at Ecole des Beaux-Arts, even though they had not been accepted (Essers 12). In 1895, Henri finally passed the Beaux-Arts entrance examination and his pathway to his new career choice had officially begun.
recognized as a writer. He became one of the most famous and well paid French
...st important scientists in history. It is said that they both shaped the sciences and mathematics that we use and study today. Euclid’s postulates and Archimedes’ calculus are both important fundamentals and tools in mathematics, while discoveries, such Archimedes’ method of using water to measure the volume of an irregularly shaped object, helped shaped all of today’s physics and scientific principles. It is for these reasons that they are remembered for their contributions to the world of mathematics and sciences today, and will continue to be remembered for years to come.
His life and art work was greatly influenced by this small town in France. He was the son of a shrewd business man, Louis-Auguste Cezanne. As a boy growing up in Aix, Cezanne loved to study Greek and Latin literature. At the age of thirteen, Paul met Emile Zola at the College Bourbon.
Etienne Pascal was very concerned about his son becoming an educated man. This is why he decided to teach his son on his own. He brought a young Blaise to lectures and other gatherings. He decided Blaise would not study math until age 15. When he made this decision he took all the math books out of the family home; however, this did not stop a curious Pascal. At age twelve, he started to work on geometry by himself. Blaise’s father finally started to take him to mathematical gatherings at "Academic Parisienne." At the age of 16, Pascal began to play an active role in "Academic Parisienne," as the principal disciple of Girard Desargues, one of the heads of "Academic Par...
Comte was born in the south of France in a city called Montpellier on January 19, 1788. He was the eldest of four children. His father Louis-Auguste Comte was a tax official and his mother, Félicité-Rosalie Boyer was twelve years older than his father. His parents were both of Roman Catholic faith and royalists. He attended the Citadel of Montpellier and the University of Montpellier. Comte also attended the École Polytechnique. While attending the Citadel of Montpellier, he abandoned the beliefs of his parents and picked up the beliefs of a movement called republicanism. “From 1818 to 1824 he contributed to the publications of Saint-Simon, and the direction of much of Comte's future work may be attributed to this association...
Pasteur was born on December 27, 1822 in a little town called Dôle in the foothills of the Jura Mountains of eastern France. When he was five years old his family moved to Arbois where he grew up with his father, mother, and three sisters. While attending primary school Pasteur was only an average student. Some considered him to be slow because he worked so hard on an exercise problem to make sure that he had the right answer. While in high school Monsieur Romanet, Pasteur’s principal, became interested in Pasteur and began to help him with his studies. With this encouragement Pasteur became a very good student. The principal suggested that he aim to attend Ecole Normale in Paris where he could become a professor at one of the great universities, however his father felt that this was far-fetched and preferred that Pasteur attend a more local school (Burton, 5-7).
Jean Baptiste Lamarck was born on August 1, 1744, in the village of Bazentin-le-Petit in France. He was the youngest of eleven children in a family with a tradition of military service; his father and several of his brothers were soldiers. He served in the military during the Seven Years War and, at the age of only 17, was awarded for bravery for his actions on the battlefield. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck became the Chevalier de Lamarck, or Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, the name he was known by. Later, when Lamarck retired injured, he took natural history. He first studied botany under the naturalist Bernard de Jussieu. The product of this ten-year period of research was Lamarck's Flore françoise, a book on the plant life of France that brought its author into the front rank of French naturalists.
Of all the scientists to emerge from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries there is one whose name is known by almost all living people. While most of these do not understand this mans work, everyone knows that his impact on the world is astonishing.
Louis Pasteur, the most famous French chemist in the world, was born on December 27, 1822 and passed away on September 28,1895. He said: “There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it”, which showed his ideal method for science. In this quote, he admitted that theoretical science and applied science have to go together and his whole scientific life went on this way. Furthermore, Louis Pasteur was known as the father of modern medical industry and the study of microorganisms. One example from his contributed works can be vaccine. With his rabies vaccine, he has been saving thousands of people’s life throughout many decades. Louis Pasteur is legendary due to his significant biography, family history and his own achievements, especially vaccine for rabies and his impact to our life nowadays.