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Authorised form of name	Maupertuis; Pierre Louis Moreau de (1698 - 1759)
Dates	1698 - 1759
Nationality	French
Place of birth	St-Malo, France
Date of birth	17 July or 28 September 1698
Place of death	Basel, Switzerland
Date of death	27 July 1759
DatesAndPlaces	Burial: Dornach, Switzerland
Research field	Mathematics
	Biology
	Physics
Activity	Education: Paris Career: Travelled to London (1728); became foremost proponent of Newtonianism in France; travelled to Basel, where he was befriended by the Bernoulli family; led the French expedition to Lapland to measure a degree of Longitude (1735); travelled to Berlin at the request of Frederick the Great (1738); served with Frederick in the War of the Austrian Succession; moved to Berlin (1745); returned to St Malo when his health broke down after a quarrel with his former pupil Samuel Konig and his friend Voltaire (1752); returned to Berlin (1755-1756); travelled to Switzerland (1758) Memberships: Academie Royale des Sciences (1723); Academie Francaise (1744); Berlin Academy (President 1746-1756)
Membership category	Fellow
Date of election	27/06/1728
Relationships	Married - de Borck of Berlin
Source	Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DSB References: Jean Jacquot, 'Sir Hans Sloane and French Men of Science' in NR 1953 vol 10 pp 85-98 J P Zinsser, 'Mentors, the marquise Du Chatelet and historical memory' in NR 2007 vol 61 pp 89-108 Notes: DSB gives birth date as 28 September 1698, and is source for birth place.
Virtual International Authority File	http://viaf.org/viaf/95152459
Code	NA7795

Archives associated with this Fellow

RefNo	Title	Date
IM/003025	Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Morceau de	2001
IM/003024	Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Morceau de	nd
MM/20/25	Letter from Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis to Cromwell Mortimer, Secretary, Royal Society	28 May 1733
MM/20/26	Letter from Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis to Cromwell Mortimer, Secretary, Royal Society	18 November 1737
MM/20/27	Letter from Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis to Cromwell Mortimer, Secretary, Royal Society	[18 February 1738]
IM/005300	Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Morceau de	nd
L&P/1/174	Letter, 'Note on Reamaur's history of insects, 6th volume, being an extract from a letter referring to the account of Trembley's freshwater polype' from Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis to unknown recipient	6 February 1742
CLP/1/48/4	Diagram, triangle in ellipse by [Pierre Louis de Maupertuis]	[1731]
CLP/1/48/3	Diagram, triangle in ellipse by [Pierre Louis de Maupertuis]	[1731]
CLP/1/48/7	Diagram, triangles and spherical triangles in ellipse by [Pierre Louis de Maupertuis]	[1731]
CLP/1/48/6	Diagram, triangles and spherical triangles in ellipse by [Pierre Louis de Maupertuis]	[1731]
CLP/1/48/5	Diagram, two triangles in ellipse by [Pierre Louis de Maupertuis]	[1731]
CLP/1/48/2	Diagram, triangle in ellipse by [Pierre Louis de Maupertuis]	[1731]
CLP/1/48	Paper, 'De figuris quas fluida rotata induere possunt, problemata duo; cum conjectura de stellis quae aliquando prodeunt vel deficiunt, et de annulo saturni' ['On two problems of the shapes of rotating fluids, with a conjecture about the stars that will eventually emerge or fade, and on the ring of Saturn'] by Petro Ludovico [Pierre Louis] de Maupertuis	[1731]
EL/M3/31	Extract of a letter, from Pierre Maupertuis to Andreas Celsius, dated at Paris	21 March 1736
CLP/1/48/1	Manuscript, 'De figuris quas fluida rotata induere possunt, problemata duo; cum conjectura de stellis quae aliquando prodeunt vel deficiunt, et de annulo saturni' ['On two problems of the shapes of rotating fluids, with a conjecture about the stars that will eventually emerge or fade, and on the ring of Saturn'] by Petro Ludovico [Pierre Louis] de Maupertuis	[1731]
EL/M3/53	Extract of a letter, from Pierre Maupertuis to Andreas Celsius, dated at Paris	1736
EL/M3/25	Extract of a letter, from Pierre Maupertuis to Andreas Celsius, dated at Paris	1735
EL/M3/59	Letter, from Pierre Maupertuis to Cromwell Mortimer, dated at Paris	25 May 1738
EL/M3/60	Translation of a letter, from Pierre Maupertuis to Cromwell Mortimer, dated at Paris	1738
EL/M3/23	Translation of a letter, from Pierre Maupertuis to Hans Sloane, dated at Paris	1731
EL/M3/24	Extract of a letter, from Pierre Maupertuis to Andreas Celsius, dated at Paris	1735
EL/M3/60b	Letter, from Pierre Maupertuis to [James] Bradley, dated at Paris	27 September 1737

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