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Émilie du Châtelet
Era chiná physicist, and author (1706-1749)
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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 17 December 1706
- Died
- 10 September 1749
- Place of birth
- Paris
- Place of death
- Lunéville
- Sex or gender
- female
- Given name
- Émilien
- Family name
- du Châtelet
- Movement
- Enlightenment philosophy
- Field of work
- physics, philosophy, mathematics
- Occupation
- mathematician, physicist, philosopher of language, essayist, salonnière, translator, philosopher
- Citizenship
- France
- Native language
- French
- birth name
- Gabrielle-Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil
- cause of death
- pulmonary embolism
- described by source
- Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Forgotten Women: The Scientists, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography, A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- influenced by
- Isaac Newton, Voltaire, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Émilie du Châtelet
- notable work
- Institutions de Physique, Q126463797, Q124361075
- place of burial
- Eglise Saint Jacques Lunéville
- student of
- Alexis Clairaut, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
- topic's main category
- Category:Émilie du Châtelet
- unmarried partner
- Jean François de Saint-Lambert, Voltaire
- writing language
- French
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