Louis Poinsot
type: Item
place of birth: Paris
place of death: Paris
sex or gender: male
country of citizenship: France
instance of: human
position held: Second Empire senator
position held: member of the Chamber of Peers
position held: Inspector general of the Éducation nationale
educated at: École polytechnique
educated at: École des Ponts ParisTech
educated at: Lycée Louis-le-Grand
field of work: analytical mechanics
native language: French
occupation: mathematician
occupation: physicist
occupation: politician
occupation: university teacher
employer: Lycée Condorcet
employer: École polytechnique
employer: Bureau des Longitudes
place of burial: Père Lachaise Cemetery
place of burial: Grave of Poinsot
award received: Knight of the Legion of Honour
award received: Foreign Member of the Royal Society
award received: 72 names on the Eiffel Tower
Commons category: Louis Poinsot
member of: Royal Society
member of: French Academy of Sciences
member of: Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
member of: Academy of Sciences of Turin
family name: Poinsot
given name: Louis
student: Auguste Comte Xavier
date of birth: 1777-01-03T00:00:00Z
date of death: 1859-12-05T00:00:00Z
languages spoken, written or signed: French
copyright status as a creator: copyrights on works have expired
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writing language: French
Wikidata QID: Q382107
label: لوي بوانسو @ar
description: French mathematician and physicist (1777-1859)
description: mathématicien et physicien français @fr
description: matematico e fisico francese @it
description: französischer Mathematiker, Mitglied der Akademie der Wissenschaften @de
alternative label: Poinsot @it
alternative label: Poinsot Louis @it