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Authorised form of nameProny; Gaspard Clair Francois Marie Riche de (1755 - 1839)
Other forms of nameGaspard Francois Clair Marie Riche de
Gaspard Francois Clair Marie Riche
Other forms of surnamede Prony
Dates1755 - 1839
NationalityFrench
Place of birthChamelet, France
Date of birth11 or 22 July 1755
Place of deathAsnieres, France
Date of death29 July 1839
OccupationEngineer
Research fieldEngineering
Mathematics
ActivityEducation:
Ecole des Ponts et Chaussees
Career:
Harbour master, Dunkirk (1785); Engineer in chief, Perpignon (1791); Professor of Mechanics, Ecole Polytechnique (1794); General Inspector and Director de l'Ecole des ponts et chaussees (1798); visited Italy at Napoleon's request (1805, 1806, 1810); Baron (1828); wrote on engineering and mathematics
Memberships:
Royal Institute of France
Membership categoryForeign Member
Date of election12/03/1818
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1839 No 40 pp 178-179
Notes:
DSB gives birth date as 22 July 1755, and is source of alternative name order
References:
K K Schwarz, 'Faraday and Babbage' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp367-381
CodeNA7468
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EC/1817/31Prony, Gaspard Clair Francois Marie Riche de: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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