Pierre Bouguer

GPTKB entity

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gptkbp:instanceOf person
gptkbp:academicAdvisor gptkb:Gottfried_Wilhelm_Leibniz
Nicolas de Malebranche
gptkbp:associatedWith gptkb:Académie_des_Sciences
gptkbp:birthDate 1698-02-28
gptkbp:contribution development of the theory of light
improvement of barometric measurements
advancements_in_the_measurement_of_the_Earth's_shape
gptkbp:deathDate 1758-08-15
gptkbp:field physics
mathematics
geodesy
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Pierre Bouguer
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Évariste_Galois
gptkb:Joseph-Louis_Lagrange
gptkb:Michio_Kaku
gptkb:David_Bohm
gptkb:John_Archibald_Wheeler
gptkb:Leonard_Susskind
gptkb:Richard_Feynman
gptkb:Albert_Einstein
gptkb:Alexis_Claude_Clairaut
gptkb:Edward_Witten
gptkb:Henri_Becquerel
gptkb:John_von_Neumann
gptkb:Stephen_Hawking
gptkb:Brian_Greene
gptkb:Henri_Poincaré
gptkb:Pierre-Simon_Laplace
gptkb:Sean_Carroll
gptkb:Lisa_Randall
gptkb:Max_Tegmark
gptkb:Roger_Penrose
gptkb:Augustin-Louis_Cauchy
gptkb:Jean-Baptiste_Le_Rond_d'Alembert
Niels Bohr
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Isaac_Newton
gptkbp:knownFor contributions to hydrostatics
work in astronomy
gptkbp:members gptkb:French_Academy_of_Sciences
gptkbp:nationality French
gptkbp:notableAlumni Bouger's_principle
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:physicist
mathematician
geodesist
gptkbp:placeOfBirth Saint-Malo,_France
gptkbp:placeOfDeath gptkb:Paris,_France
gptkbp:wrote Essai d'optique sur la gradation de la lumière
La figure de la terre
Traité de la pesanteur des corps
Éléments d'hydraulique