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d'Angers (1788-1856) is exhibited in the Louvre museum and a mural of him by A.
Sauvage decorates the café-tabac at 53 Bvd Arago, on the corner of the Rue de la
Glacière. His is one of the seventy-two names of French scientists and engineers that
casted into the side structures of the Eiffel Tower, under the first balcony and on the
side opposite the Military Academy. Apart from these there are no public representa-
tions of the man in Paris, although there are statues at his birthplace. This is an
anomaly; as a result, on the bicentenary of his birth and at the suggestion of the Arago
Association, the City of Paris and the Ministry of Culture decided to make up for the
absence in modern times of a memorial in Paris to Arago. They set up an open com-
petition for ideas, which was won by Jan Dibbets.
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The seventy-two scientists and engineers of the Eiffel Tower
Name
Description
Marc Seguin
mechanic
Joseph Jérôme Lefrançais de Lalande
astronomer
Henri Tresca
engineer and mechanic
Jean-Victor Poncelet Gernald
geometer
Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse
civil and hydraulic engineer
Joseph Louis Lagrange
mathematician
Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Belanger
mathematician
Georges Cuvier
naturalist
Pierre-Simon Laplace
mathematician and astronomer
Pierre Louis Dulong
physicist and chemist
Michel Chasles
geometer
Antoine Lavoisier
chemist
André-Marie Ampere
mathematician and physicist
Micel Eugène Chevreul
chemist
Jeugène Flachat
engineer
Claude-Louis Marie Henri Navier
mathematician
Adrien-Marie Legendre
geometer
Jean-Antoine Chaptal
agronomist and chemist
Jules Célestin Jamin
physicist
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
chemist
Hippolyte Fizeau
physicist
Jacques Schneider
industrialist
Henri Louis Le Chatelier
chemist
Pierre Berthier
mineralogist
Jean-Augustin Barral
agronomist, chemist, physicist
Albert De Dion
engineer
Ernest Goüin
engineer and industrialist
Alexandre Louis Jousselin
engineer
Paul Pierre Broca
physician and anthropologist
Antoine Henri Becquerel
physicist
Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis
engineer and scientist
Jean-François Cail
industrialist
Jacques Triger
engineer
Henri Giffard
engineer
François Perrier
geographer and mathematician
Jacques Charles François Sturm
mathematician
Augustin Louis Cauchy
mathematician
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