| Authorised form of name | Lagrange; Joseph Louis (1736 - 1813) |
| Dates | 1736 - 1813 |
| Place of birth | Turin, Italy |
| Date of birth | 25 January 1736 |
| Place of death | Paris, France |
| Date of death | 10 April 1813 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
Pantheon, Paris |
| Research field | Mechanics |
| Celestial mechanics |
| Astronomy |
| Mathematics |
| Activity | Career:
Professor of Mathematics, Royal School of Artillery, Turin (1754); Director, Berlin Academy (1766); went to Prussia (1766-1787); published 'Mecanique analytique' (1788); went to Paris after death of Frederick the Great, lodged in the Louvre and received pension of 6,000 francs; Professor, Normal and Polytechnic Schools and member of the Bureau des Longitudes (after the Revolution); made a member of the Senate and a Count by Napoleon
|
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 05/05/1791 |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
References:
Alex D D Craik, 'James Ivory's last papers on the 'Figure of the Earth' (with biographical additions) in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 187-204
B Bleaney and O V Lounasmaa, 'Nuclear orientation and nuclear cooling experiments in Oxford and Helsinki. Part 3. Progress from 1975 to 2001' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 331 - 344 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/44051 |
| Code | NA2872 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1791/10 | Lagrange, Joseph Louis: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/002596 | Lagrange, Joseph Louis Marie, Compte de | nd |
| IM/002597 | Lagrange, Joseph Louis Marie, Compte de | nd |
| PT/61/2 | Paper, 'On the formulæ investigated by Dr Brinkley for the general term in the development of Lagrange's expression for the summation of series and for successive integrations' by [John Frederick William Herschel] | 20 April 1860 |
| AP/10/28 | Unpublished paper, 'A memoir on the calculus of variations' by John Walsh | 24 April 1832 |
| AP/21/12 | Unpublished paper, 'On the variation of a triple integral' by Richard Abbatt | October 1837 |