Authorised form of name | Prevost; Pierre (1751 - 1839) |
Dates | 1751 - 1839 |
Nationality | Swiss |
Place of birth | Geneva, Switzerland |
Date of birth | 03 March 1751 |
Place of death | Geneva, Switzerland |
Date of death | 08 April 1839 |
Research field | Physics |
Philosophy |
Literature |
Activity | Education: Dr Juris (1773) Career: Tutor in Holland and France; Professor of Philosophy, Berlin; lived in Geneva and Paris; Professor of Philosophy, Academy of Geneva (1793); Professor of General Physics, Academy of Geneva (1810); member of the Council of 200, Geneva
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Membership category | Foreign Member |
Date of election | 17/04/1806 |
Source | Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DSB Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc 1839 No 40 pp 180-182 References: J S Rowlinson, 'Le Sage's Essai de chymie mechanique' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 35-45 |
Code | NA3134 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNo | Title | Date |
EC/1805/23 | Prevost, Pierre: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
L&P/11/53 | Paper, 'Quelques remarques d'optique [Some optical remarks]' by Pierre Prevost | 1798 |
L&P/12/36 | Paper, 'Quelques remarques sur la chaleur et sur l'action des corps qui l'interceptent [Some remarks on the heat and on the action of the bodies which intercept it]' by Pierre Prevost | 1802 |
MC/28/99 | Letter from [Charles-Eugène] Guye, Faculte des Sciences, Laboratoire de Physique de l'Universite, Geneve, to the Royal Society Secretariat | 26 November 1913 |