Pierre Duhem
French theoretical physicist
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... Wikipedia
Born: June 9, 1861, Paris, France
Died: September 14, 1916 (age 55 years), Cabrespine, France
Education: École normale supérieure and Collège Stanislas
Influenced by: Josiah Willard Gibbs, Ernst Mach, and William John Macquorn Rankine
Children: Hélène Duhem
Thesis: Étude historique sur la théorie de l'aimantation par influence (1888)