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item typeScientistborn inFranceborn in year1800 to 1900alma materÉcole Polytechnique
 
 
Henri Becquerel

Henri Becquerel

Antoine Henri Becquerel (15 December 1852 – 25 August 1908) was a French physicist, Nobel laureate, and one of the discoverers of radioactivity. He won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering radioactivity.

 
 
Paul Pierre Lévy

Paul Pierre Lévy

Paul Pierre Lévy (15 September 1886 – 15 December 1971) was a French mathematician who was active especially in probability theory, introducing martingales and Lévy flights. Lévy processes, Lévy measures, Lévy's constant, the Lévy distribution, the Lévy skew alpha-stable distribution, the Lévy area and the fractal Lévy C curve are also named after him. Lévy was born in Paris, the son of Lucien Lévy, an Examiner at the École Polytechnique.

 
 
Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen

Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen

Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen (10 July 1814 - 31 June 1852) was a French chemist who was a professor at the Ecole des Mines. Born to Claude Louis Ebelmen, a forest surveyor, and Jeanne Claude Grenier, he had an efficient and proud childhood. He attended classes in grammar and literature at the Language School at Baume, after which he grew interested in the Sciences.