Inventors
Invented a System of Writing for the blind
Louis Braille
Discovered Radium in 1899
Pierre and Marie Curie
Archeologist who succeeded in deciphering Egyptian Hieroglyphics
Jean-François Champollion
Contributed to the Development of Photography
Louis-Jacques Daguerre
Formulated the Theory of Microbes as the cause of Contagious diseases; Invented a rabies vaccine; discovered the process of pasteurization
Louis Pasteur
Created analytical geometry; founded the scientific method; based on reason
René Descartes
Invented the Hydraulic Press and the First Machine
Blaise Pascal
Founder of Modern Physiology and Experimental Medicine
Claude Bernard
Contributed to the study of electricity and mathematics; the unit of the intensity of electric current is named after him
André Ampère
One of the Creators of Modern Chemistry
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier