Louis Poinsot

Louis Poinsot was a French mathematician and physicist. Poinsot was the inventor of geometrical mechanics, showing how a system of forces acting on a rigid body could be resolved into a single force and a couple.

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Who was born first?

• Louis Poinsot and Louis Jacques Thénard were born the same year
• Louis Poinsot and Bernard Courtois were born the same year
• Louis Poinsot and John George Children were born the same year
• Louis Poinsot and Carl Friedrich Gauss were born the same year
• Louis Poinsot was born 1 year before Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

Timeline

1. Bernard CourtoisFebruary 8, 1777 – September 27, 1838
2. Carl Friedrich GaussApril 30, 1777 – February 23, 1855
3. John George ChildrenMay 18, 1777 – January 1, 1852
4. Louis Jacques ThénardMay 4, 1777 – June 21, 1857
5. Louis Poinsot (this page)January 3, 1777 – December 5, 1859
6. Joseph Louis Gay-LussacDecember 6, 1778 – May 9, 1850

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• Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAugust 28, 1749 – March 22, 1832
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• Nicolaus CopernicusFebruary 19, 1473 – May 24, 1543
• Louis PasteurDecember 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895
• Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizJune 21, 1646 – November 14, 1716