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Gaspard de Prony
French mathematician and engineer, who worked on hydraulics (1755-1839)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 22 July 1755
- Died
- 29 July 1839
- Place of birth
- Chamelet
- Place of death
- Asnières-sur-Seine
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Gaspard
- Family name
- Riche
- Field of work
- construction industry, technique, bridge, road, mathematics, physics, discoveries and inventions, translation from English, translation into French
- Occupation
- mathematician, inventor, physicist, politician, civil engineer, university teacher, executive, translator, highway engineer, scientist, engineer
- Position held
- president of the French Academy of Sciences, director
- Citizenship
- France
- Native language
- French
- Awards
- Commander of the Legion of Honour, Knight of the Order of Saint Michael, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, 72 names on the Eiffel Tower
- birth name
- Gaspard Clair François Marie Riche de Prony (français)
- cause of death
- childbirth, earthquake
- described by source
- Nordisk familjebok, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Riemann's Music Dictionary, Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, BEIC Digital Library
- educated at
- École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées
- languages spoken, written or signed
- French
- manner of death
- accidental death
- member of
- Société Philomathique de Paris, French Academy of Sciences, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Royal Society, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Bureau des Longitudes, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- name in native language
- Gaspard Clair François Marie Riche de Prony
- noble title
- baron
- notable work
- De Prony brake, Prony equation, Prony's method
- partner in business or sport
- Pierre-Simon Girard
- place of burial
- Père Lachaise Cemetery, Grave of Prony
- topic's main category
- Category:Gaspard de Prony
- work location
- Paris
- writing language
- French
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