Category:Siméon Denis Poisson

Siméon Denis Poisson
	French mathematician, mechanician and physicist
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Date of birth	21 June 1781; Pithiviers
Date of death	25 April 1840; Paris
Place of burial	Père Lachaise Cemetery (19, Grave of Siméon Denis Poisson);
Country of citizenship	France;
Educated at	École Polytechnique;
Doctoral advisor	Joseph-Louis Lagrange (first doctoral advisor); Pierre-Simon Laplace (second doctoral advisor);
Doctoral student	Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1827); Michel Chasles (1814); Joseph Liouville (1836);
Occupation	mathematician; astronomer; physicist; university teacher;
Employer	École Polytechnique; Bureau des Longitudes; University of Paris; Ecole Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr;
Member of	Société Philomathique de Paris; Royal Society; Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; French Academy of Sciences; Bureau des Longitudes; American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Russian Academy of Sciences; Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences; Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL; Academy of Sciences of Turin;
Position held	Pair of France;
Field of work	mathematical analysis; probability theory; mathematics; mechanics;
Child	Anne-Denise-Joséphine-Marie Poisson; Marie-Alexandrine Poisson; Simeon Jean Charles Poisson;
Work location	Paris;
Notable work	Poisson process; Poisson regression; Poisson's equation; Poisson's ratio; Poisson distribution;
Award received	Fellow of the Royal Society; Copley Medal (1832); 1832; Lalande Prize (1810);
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