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French Academy of Sciences

French Academy of Sciences

France's learned society for science, which elected Branly over Marie Curie in 1911 and did not elect a woman member until 1962.

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Wikidata Q188771

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located in:
  • Paris

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Appears in12 items

  • Fermat’s Last Theorem4 items
    • Gauss declines to compete · prize-giver21 Mar 1816
    • Legendre prints Germain’s theorem · recipient1823
    • Lamé announces a general proof · venue1 Mar 1847
    • The Academy gives its medal to Kummer · awarder1857
  • Halley’s Comet Through History1 item
    • Clairaut adds Jupiter and Saturn · recipient14 Nov 1758
  • Marie Curie2 items
    • Pitchblende is more active than its uranium · recipient12 Apr 1898
    • The Académie des sciences turns her down · electing body23 Jan 1911
  • Recorded Sound2 items
    • “Au clair de la lune” traced in soot · archive9 Apr 1860
    • Charles Cros seals his idea in an envelope · depository30 Apr 1877
  • The Enlightenment2 items
    • Émilie du Châtelet and Voltaire at Cirey · organizer1734
    • Franklin and Voltaire embrace at the Academy of Sciences · host29 Apr 1778
  • The Periodic Table1 item
    • The Curies announce polonium · recipient18 Jul 1898

Mentioned in2 items

  • Fermat’s Last Theorem1 item
    • Dirichlet and Legendre: fifth powers11 Jul 1825
  • The Periodic Table1 item
    • Marguerite Perey's franciumJan 1939

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