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Director of the Meudon and Paris ObservatoriesJoseph Louis Fran\u00e7ois Bertrand (1822\u20131900)X1839French mathematician who worked in the fields of number theory, differential geometry, probability theory, economics and thermodynamics..[6]Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774\u20131862)X1794Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician who established the reality of meteorites, and studied the polarization of light.[7]Jean-Victor PonceletX1807Mathematician and engineerJean-Pierre BourguignonX1966MathematicianChristophe BreuilX1989Proved the Taniyama\u2013Shimura conjecture together with Fred Diamond, Richard Taylor and Brian Conrad in 1999\u00c9douard Br\u00e9zinX1958Theoretical physicist, winner of Dirac PrizeFran\u00e7ois HussenotX1930Aeronautical engineer, perhaps the first person who invented the flight data recorderGuy du Merle (1908\u20131993)X1927Aerospace engineer, test pilot and first director-general of the \u00c9cole nationale de l’aviation civile (French civil aviation university)Henri Brocard (1845\u20131922)X1865Mathematician, Brocard points are named after him.[8]Emmanuel Cand\u00e8sX1990Statistician, Mathematician, winner of P\u00f3lya Prize, Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied MathematicsRama ContX1991Mathematician, winner of Louis Bachelier Prize (French Academy of Sciences) (2010), Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied MathematicsJean-Marc FontaineX1965Mathematician, member of the French Academy of SciencesYves LambertX1956Aerospace engineer, former Director General of EurocontrolNicolas L\u00e9onard Sadi Carnot (1796\u20131832)X1812French physicist, mathematician and engineer who gave the first successful theoretical account of heat engines, the Carnot cycle, and laid the foundations of the second law of thermodynamics.[9]Augustin Louis Cauchy (1789\u20131857)X1805Mathematician, formulated the residue theorem[10]Andr\u00e9-Louis CholeskyX1895Mathematician, known for the Cholesky decompositionGeorges Charpy (1865\u20131945)X1887Invented the Charpy impact testMichel Chasles (1793\u20131880)X1812Mathematician[11]Henri-Louis le Chatelier (1850\u20131936)X1869Chemist, most famous for devising Le Chatelier’s principle[12]\u00c9mile Clapeyron (1799\u20131864)X1816Physicist, one of the founders of thermodynamics[13]Jean-Michel CoronX1975MathematicianPierre Henri Hugoniot (1851\u20131887)X1872Physicist, mechanical engineer and scientist. The Rankine\u2013Hugoniot equation is named after him.Gustave Coriolis (1792\u20131843)X1808Mathematician, mechanical engineer and scientist. The Coriolis Effect is named after him.[14]Charles Fabry (1867\u20131945)X1885Physicist, co-inventor of the Fabry\u2013P\u00e9rot interferometer[15]Philippe Flajolet (1948\u20132011)X1968Computer scientistAugustin Fresnel (1788\u20131827)X1804Physicist, major contributor to wave optics[16]Eug\u00e8ne Freyssinet (1879\u20131962)X1899Developed the prestressed concreteCamille Jordan (1838\u20131922)X1855Mathematician, known both for his foundational work in group theory and for his Cours d’analyse[17]Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac (1778\u20131850)X1797Chemist and physicist. He is known mostly for the Gay-Lussac’s laws related to gases.\u00c9mile Lemoine (1840\u20131912)X1866Mathematician, known for his proof of the existence of the Lemoine point (or the symmedian point) of a triangle[18]Louis Leprince-Ringuet (1901\u20132000)X1920Physicist, telecommunications engineer, essayist and historian of scienceAlbert JacquardX1945Geneticist, strong advocate of uneconomic growthGabriel Lam\u00e9X1815Mathematician, noted for his work on Curvilinear coordinates and Lam\u00e9 functionPaul L\u00e9vyX1908One of the forefathers of the modern theory of stochastic processesAlfred-Marie Li\u00e9nardX1887physicist and geologist, noted for his works on Li\u00e9nard\u2013Wiechert potentialJoseph Liouville (1809\u20131882)X1825Mathematician[19]St\u00e9phane MallatX1981Mathematician\u00c9tienne-Louis Malus (1775\u20131812)X1795Physicist, mathematician, known for the Malus’s law[20]Beno\u00eet Mandelbrot (1924\u20132010)X1944Mathematician, father of fractal geometry[21]Albert MessiahX1940Theoretical physicist, engineer of corps of minesBertrand MeyerX1969Computer scientist, creator of the Eiffel language and the concept of Design by ContractCharles Joseph MinardX1796Civil engineer noted for inventions in the field of Information graphicsClaude-Louis Navier (1785\u20131836)X1802Engineer and physicist who specialized in mechanics. The Navier\u2013Stokes equations are named after him.[22]H\u00e9l\u00e8ne PerrinX1995Physicist[23]Henri Poincar\u00e9 (1854\u20131912)X1873Mathematician, theoretical physicist, and a philosopher of science[24]Sim\u00e9on Denis Poisson (1781\u20131840)X1798Mathematician, geometer, and physicist[25]Alfred PotierX1840PhysicistJean L\u00e9onard Marie PoiseuilleX1815Physicist, noted for his works on fluid mechanics and the Hagen\u2013Poiseuille equationHenri Victor RegnaultX1830Physicist and chemist, mentor of William Kelvin,Copley Medal RecipientRaymond StoraX1951Theoretical physicist, winner of Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics for the BRST quantizationAdh\u00e9mar Jean Claude Barr\u00e9 de Saint-VenantX1813Notable mechanician and mathematicianJean TiroleX1973EconomistL\u00e9on Charles Th\u00e9veninX1876Extended the Ohm’s law by Th\u00e9venin’s theoremLouis VicatX1804Engineer, inventor of the Vicat needleMichel VirlogeuxX1967Engineer of the Millau Viaduct.Jean Zinn-JustinX1964Theoretical physicist, member of Acad\u00e9mie des SciencesRose Dieng-Kuntzenrolled 1976Artificial intelligence, first African woman to enroll in the \u00c9cole[26]Patrick KyX1986CEO of the European Aviation Safety Agency[27]Alexis BonnetX1985Mathematician (1996 EMS Prize), investor, founder of the management company Methodology Asset ManagementYves PoilaneX1979Director General of IONIS Education GroupLouis PouzinX1950Inventor of the datagram and designer of an early packet communications network, CYCLADESAnne-Marie LagrangeX1982Astrophysicist, French Academy of Sciences, discovered the exoplanet Beta Pictoris b     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki6\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki6\/list-of-ecole-polytechnique-alumni\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"List of \u00c9cole Polytechnique alumni"}}]}]