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TIMELINE OF FRENCH SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES
By: Storm McCroan
Ambroise Paré
A French surgeon in 1545. Considered one of the fathers
of surgery and modern forensic pathology.
He was an anatomist and invented several surgical instruments; such as the first haemotats (a clamp or forceps used to control bleeding).
There is a statue in memory of Ambroise Paré in place dut jet d’eau in Laval,France
Ambroise Paré continued…
Statue in memory of Ambroise Paré in place dut jet d’eau in Laval,France
Blaise Pascal
Blaise pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and catholic philosopher who invented the first mechanical calculator in 1645
Jean Baptiste Denys
Jean Baptiste Denys was a French physician.
He administered the first fully documented human blood transfusion on June 15,1667; but it wasn’t until after Karl Landsteiner’s discovery of the four blood groups in 1902 that blood transfusions became safe and reliable.
Pierre Fauchard
Pierre Fauchard was a significant French physician. Known widely for his book, Le Chirugien Dentiste in 1730. In English the book translates as the surgeon dentist.
Fauchard’s book is said to be the first scientific description of dentistry.
Antoine De Reaumur
Antoine De Reaumur invented the thermometer in 1730 which bears his name The Reaumur. He is considered the founder of ethology.
Charles Marie De La Contaminé
Charles Marie De La Contaminé was a French explorer, geographer, and mathmatician.
He spent 10 years in present day Equador measuring the length of a degree latitude at the equator and preparing the first map of the amazon region, based on astronomical observations in 1735.
Jacques Daviel
Jacques Daviel was a French ophthalmologist credited with originating the first significant advance in cataract surgery. Daviel preformed the first extra capsular cataract extraction on April 8,1747.
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier was a French noble man who founded and termed both oxygen in 1778 and hydrogen in 1783. He also helped construct the metric system and the first extensive list of elements.
René Laennec
A French physician. He invented the stethoscope in 1816, while working at the Hôpital Necker and pioneered its use in diagnosing various chest conditions.
He became a lecturer at the Collège de France in 1822 and professor of medicine in 1823.
Jean Francois Champolion
Jean Francois Champolion was a French classical scholar, philologist, and deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphs. Champolion published the first translation of the Rosseta Stone hieroglyphs in 1822, showing that the Egyptian writing system was a combination of phonetic and ideographic signs.
Léon Foucault
Léon Foucault was a French physicist who invented the pendulum in 1851. A pendulum is a simple device conceived as an experiment to demonstrate the earth’s rotation.
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur was a French chemist and microbiologist. He created the first vaccine for rabies and anthrax. His experiments supported the germ theory of disease. Pasteur also came up with idea of pasteurization in 1885.
Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince
Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince (born August 1841, vanished 16 September 1890) was an inventor who is considered by many film historians as the true father of motion pictures, who shot the first moving pictures on paper film using a single lens camera.
Henri Becquerel
Henri Becquerel was a French physicist, noble Laureate, and discoverer of radio activity along with Marie Curie and Pierre Curie, who all three one the 1903 noble prize in physics.
George Marie Darrieus
Georges Jean Marie Darrieus (24 September 1888 - 15 July 1979) was a French aeronautical engineer in the 20th century. He is perhaps most famous for his invention of the Darrieus rotor, a wind turbine capable of operating from any direction and under adverse weather conditions, and the vertical-axis giromill.
Dr.Benard Devauchlle
Dr. Bernard Devauchelle is a French oral and maxillofacial surgeon. He is best known as the first surgeon to successfully complete the first face transplant in November 2005 at Amiens University Hospital.