Henri Paul Cartan was a French mathematician who made substantial contributions to algebraic topology.
Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem was a French theoretical physicist who worked on thermodynamics, hydrodynamics, and the theory of elasticity. Duhem was also a historian of science, noted for his work on the European Middle Ages, which is regarded as having created the field of the history of medieval science. As a philosopher of science, he is remembered principally for his views on the indeterminacy of experimental criteria.
Jean-Marie Souriau was a French mathematician. He was one of the pioneers of modern symplectic geometry.
Francis Perrin was a French physicist, the son of Nobel prize-winning physicist Jean Perrin.
Louis Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Bachelier was a French mathematician at the turn of the 20th century. He is credited with being the first person to model the stochastic process now called Brownian motion, as part of his doctoral thesis The Theory of Speculation.
Yves-André Rocard was a French physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb for France.
Claude Jacques Berge was a French mathematician, recognized as one of the modern founders of combinatorics and graph theory.
Géraud de Cordemoy was a French philosopher, historian and lawyer. He is mainly known for his works in metaphysics and for his theory of language.
Abraham Moles was a pioneer in information science and communication studies in France, He was a professor at Ulm school of design and University of Strasbourg. He is known for his work on kitsch.
The electrothermal instability is a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) instability appearing in magnetized non-thermal plasmas used in MHD converters. It was first theoretically discovered in 1962 and experimentally measured into a MHD generator in 1963 by Evgeny Velikhov.
"This paper shows that it is possible to assert sufficiently specifically that the ionization instability is the number one problem for the utilization of a plasma with hot electrons."
Georges Henri Reeb was a French mathematician. He worked in differential topology, differential geometry, differential equations, topological dynamical systems theory and non-standard analysis.
Michel Maffesoli is a French sociologist.
Luc Illusie is a French mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry. His most important work concerns the theory of the cotangent complex and deformations, crystalline cohomology and the De Rham–Witt complex, and logarithmic geometry. In 2012, he was awarded the Émile Picard Medal of the French Academy of Sciences.
Adrien-Jean-Pierre Thilorier was a French inventor who was the first person to produce solid carbon dioxide.
Henri Skoda is a French mathematician, specializing in the analysis of several complex variables.
Maurice Janet (1888–1983) was a French mathematician.
Jean-Michel Bony is a French mathematician, specializing in mathematical analysis. He is known for his work on microlocal analysis and pseudodifferential operators.
Jean Dubois was a French linguist, grammarian and lexicographer.
Eugene Bloch was a French physicist and professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, and at the Faculty of Science of the University of Paris.
Jacques Jean-Pierre Neveu was a Belgian mathematician, specializing in probability theory. He is one of the founders of the French school of probability and statistics.
