Category:Gaspard de Prony

**Gaspard de Prony**
	French mathematician and engineer, who worked on hydraulics (1755-1839)
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Name in native language	Gaspard de Prony;
Date of birth	22 July 1755; Chamelet; Gaspard-Clair-François-Marie Riche de Prony
Date of death	29 July 1839; Asnières-sur-Seine
Place of burial	Père Lachaise Cemetery (8, Grave of Prony (Père-Lachaise, division 8)); Grave of Prony;
Country of citizenship	France;
Educated at	École des Ponts ParisTech;
Occupation	mathematician; inventor; physicist; politician; professor; civil engineer (1780–); university teacher; executive; scientist; translator;
Employer	École des Ponts ParisTech (1780–); École polytechnique (1794–1798);
Member of	Société Philomathique de Paris; French Academy of Sciences; Royal Society of Edinburgh (1822–); Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1810–); Royal Society (Foreign Member of the Royal Society, 1818–); Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences (1805–); Bureau des Longitudes (1833–); Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (1807–);
Position held	member of the Chamber of Peers (1825–); president (French Academy of Sciences, 1810–1810); director (École des Ponts ParisTech, 1798–1839); engineer of the French Corps of Bridges and Roads (1780–);
Field of work	construction industry; technique; bridge; road; mathematics; physics; discoveries and inventions; translation from English; translation into French;
Native language	French;
Noble title	baron (1828–);
Spouse	Marie-Pierrette de la Poix de Fréminville;
Relative	Christophe-Paulin de La Poix de Fréminville (nephew);
Work location	Paris;
Award received	Commander of the Legion of Honour (1833); Knight of the Order of Saint-Michel; Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1818); 72 names on the Eiffel Tower;
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De Prony - Nouvelle architecture hydraulique, Première partie, 1790.djvu 2,500 × 3,419, 741 pages; 35.75 MB
De Prony - Nouvelle architecture hydraulique, Seconde partie, 1790.djvu 685 × 937, 330 pages; 4.06 MB
De Prony - Recherches physico-mathématiques sur la théorie des eaux courantes, 1804.djvu 4,942 × 6,642, 312 pages; 15.1 MB
Gaspard de Prony.jpg 1,000 × 942; 397 KB
Paris17 rue de Prony.jpg 3,264 × 2,448; 2.13 MB
Portret van de ingenieur Gaspard de Prony De Prony, Gaspard-Clair-François-Marie-Riche (titel op object) Leden van het Institut Royal de France (serietitel) Iconographie de l'Institut royal de France (serietitel op ob, RP-P-1907-1549.jpg 3,308 × 4,418; 1.79 MB

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