Name : Émilie du Châtelet
Real name: Émilie de Breteuil
Title: Marquise du Châtelet
Date of Birth: December 17,1706
Nationality: French
Job: mathematician, writer, physicist, translator... in a word, scientist.
Main works: Dissertation sur la nature et la propagation du feu (1737), Lessons in Physics (1740) and translation into French, together with her own comments, of Newton's Principia Mathematica. In her research she introduced notions that would soo lead researchers to the concept of conservation of energy.
Job: mathematician, writer, physicist, translator... in a word, scientist.
Main works: Dissertation sur la nature et la propagation du feu (1737), Lessons in Physics (1740) and translation into French, together with her own comments, of Newton's Principia Mathematica. In her research she introduced notions that would soo lead researchers to the concept of conservation of energy.
Links and more at Wikipedia
"The scientist that history forgot"
an article by David Bodanis at The Guardian
"The scientist that history forgot"
an article by David Bodanis at The Guardian
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