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François Arago
French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician (1786-1853)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 26 February 1786, 27 February 1786, 1786
- Died
- 2 October 1853, 1853
- Place of birth
- Estagel
- Place of death
- Paris
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Arago
- Mother
- Marie Arago
- Child
- Emmanuel Arago, Alfred Arago
- Sibling
- Jean Arago, Jacques Arago, Étienne Arago, Victor Arago, Joseph Arago
- Occupation
- astronomer, mathematician, physicist, politician, university teacher, biographer, writer
- Position held
- Member of the Chambre des députés des départements, Minister of War, head of government of France, president of the Société des gens de lettres, president of the French Academy of Sciences, member of the French National Assembly
- Citizenship
- France
- Religion
- atheism
- Awards
- Copley Medal, Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, citizen of Edinburgh, Rumford Medal, Order of the Cross of July, Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Knight of the Legion of Honour, Officer of the Legion of Honour, Commander of the Legion of Honour, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour
- archives at
- Archives nationales
- birth name
- Dominique François Jean Arago Roig
- described by source
- Nordisk familjebok, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), BEIC Digital Library, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Popular Science, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The New Student's Reference Work, A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists, Library of the World's Best Literature, Physicists: Biographical Dictionary
- doctoral student
- Yvon Villarceau
- educated at
- Lycée François-Arago, École polytechnique
- family
- Arago family
- member of
- Royal Society of London, French Academy of Sciences, Société Philomathique de Paris, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Warsaw Society of Friends of Learning, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL, Académie Nationale de Médecine
- member of political party
- French Republican Party
- notable work
- Q42725812
- participant in
- Arc measurement of Delambre and Méchain
- place of burial
- grave of Arago
- place of detention
- Mallorca
- relative
- Claude-Louis Mathieu, Alexis Thérèse Petit
- student
- Hippolyte Fizeau, Paul Auguste Ernest Laugier, Auguste Comte, Émile Gautier, Jean-Daniel Colladon
- topic's main category
- Category:François Arago
- work location
- Paris
- writing language
- French
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