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Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
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Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis

Author · born September 28, 1698 · died 1759

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Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis was a French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters. He became the director of the Académie des Sciences and the first president of the Prussian Academy of Science, at the invitation of Frederick the Great.

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  1. ~30Received the Fellow of the Royal Society1728
  2. ~48Became president1746

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