Scientists in Paris

The atlas holds 30 people and 102 moments here, from 1377 to 2006. The most recorded lives are Marie Curie, Louis Pasteur and Montesquieu.

Notable people

1. Montesquieu

   from 1709 to 1755

   8 moments here

   Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, was a French jurist, historian, and political philosopher.…

2. Nikola Tesla

   from 1882 to 1889

   2 moments here

   Serbian-American engineer and inventor best known for foundational work on alternating-current power systems, the induction motor, high-frequency…

3. Raisa Gorbacheva

   in 1985

   1 moment here

   Soviet and Russian activist, philanthropist, lecturer, and public figure; wife of Mikhail Gorbachev.…

4. René Descartes

   from 1616 to 1648

   7 moments here

   French philosopher, mathematician, and natural philosopher whose methodic doubt, mind-body distinction, analytic techniques, and mechanical account…

5. Thomas Edison

   in 1889

   1 moment here

   American inventor and industrialist whose laboratories developed and commercialized technologies in telegraphy, recorded sound, electric lighting and…

6. Thomas Hobbes

   from 1629 to 1647

   3 moments here

   English philosopher and political theorist, best known for Leviathan (1651). Hobbes’s documented movements include study at Oxford, European travel…

Moments

1. 1783 Manned balloon launch Benjamin Franklin
2. 1784 Meeting with Mirabeau Benjamin Franklin
3. 1813 Arrival in Paris with Davy Michael Faraday
4. 1827 Visits Paris Charles Darwin
5. 1838 Boarding-school attempt in Paris Louis Pasteur
6. 1843 École Normale Supérieure student Louis Pasteur
7. 1843 Establishes a Paris household Karl Marx
8. 1844 Second meeting with Marx Friedrich Engels
9. 1844 Meets Engels at Café de la Régence Karl Marx
10. 1846 Paris communist organizing Friedrich Engels
11. 1846 Moves to Paris Charles Dickens
12. 1848 Arrives in revolutionary Paris Karl Marx
13. 1849 Returns to Paris after expulsion from Prussia Karl Marx
14. 1850 Scientific study in Paris Alfred Nobel
15. 1857 Move to Paris and ENS directorship Louis Pasteur
16. 1858 Laboratory at the École Normale Supérieure Louis Pasteur
17. 1863 Gives readings at the British Embassy Charles Dickens
18. 1867 Chair of organic chemistry at the Sorbonne Louis Pasteur
19. 1873 Residence on Avenue de Malakoff Alfred Nobel
20. 1881 Visits Jenny Longuet in Argenteuil Karl Marx
21. 1882 Continental Edison employment Nikola Tesla
22. 1882 Stays again in Argenteuil Karl Marx
23. 1882 Takes daily treatments at Enghien Karl Marx
24. 1885 Rabies treatment at ENS laboratory Louis Pasteur
25. 1888 Pasteur Institute inauguration Louis Pasteur
26. 1889 Exposition Universelle visit Nikola Tesla
27. 1889 Tours Europe and Paris Exposition Thomas Edison
28. 1891 Studies at the Sorbonne Marie Curie
29. 1891 Sets out for Paris Marie Curie
30. 1892 Seventieth-birthday jubilee Louis Pasteur
31. 1895 Final move to Villeneuve-l'Étang Louis Pasteur
32. 1895 Marries Pierre Curie in Sceaux Marie Curie
33. 1895 Death at Villeneuve-l'Étang Louis Pasteur
34. 1895 Signing of the final will Alfred Nobel
35. 1896 Works in the Paris laboratory Marie Curie
36. 1898 Moves research into the radium shed Marie Curie
37. 1900 Active participation in Paris Exposition Dmitri Mendeleev
38. 1904 Resumes teaching at Sèvres Marie Curie
39. 1906 Moves her household to Sceaux Marie Curie
40. 1913 Tutoring journey to Paris J. R. R. Tolkien
41. 1916 Trains radiology assistants in Paris Marie Curie
42. 1919 Returns to her completed Radium Institute laboratory Marie Curie
43. 1921 Attends Paris Opera benefit Marie Curie
44. 1922 Debates Bergson in Paris Albert Einstein
45. 1931 Tour of France Helen Keller
46. 1952 Speech at the Sorbonne Helen Keller
47. 1976 Visit to France Mikhail Gorbachev
48. 1977 Second visit to France Mikhail Gorbachev
49. 1985 State visit to Paris Mikhail Gorbachev
50. 1985 Paris state-visit appearance Raisa Gorbacheva

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