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...lermont-Ferrand]], [[France]] – August 19, 1662, in [[Paris]]) was a French [[mathematician]], [[physicist]], and [[religion|religious]] [[philosopher] ...ism]]. This still fairly small sect was making surprising inroads into the French Catholic community at that time. It espoused rigorous [[Augustinism]]. Bl ...

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...quipartition. Such decreases in heat capacity were among the first sign to physicists of the 19th century that classical physics was incorrect and that a new, mo ...ity]], both of which were studied in the 19th century. In 1819, the French physicists [[Pierre Louis Dulong]] and [[Alexis Thérèse Petit]] discovered that the sp ...

...gfried (2002:42–55).</ref> In 1789 the term ''element'' was defined by the French nobleman and scientific researcher [[Antoine Lavoisier]] to mean basic subs }}</ref> French physicist [[Jean Perrin]] used Einstein's work to experimentally determine ...

...er was the mathematician [[Max Noether]]. Emmy originally planned to teach French and English after passing the required examinations, but instead studied ma Emmy Noether showed early proficiency in French and English. In the spring of 1900 she took the examination for teachers of ...

The first Doppler redshift was described in 1848 by French physicist [[Hippolyte Fizeau|Armand-Hippolyte-Louis Fizeau]], who pointed t ...he [[Big Bang]] theory.<ref name=Eddington>This was recognized early on by physicists and astronomers working in cosmology in the 1930s. The earliest layman publ ...