# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-baptiste-meusnier
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:52:52.671Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-baptiste-meusnier"
name: "Jean Baptiste Meusnier"
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description: "Jean Baptiste Marie Charles Meusnier de la Place was a French mathematician, engineer and Revolutionary general. He is best known for Meusnier's theorem on the curvature of surfaces, which he formulated while he was at the École Royale du Génie. He also discovered the helicoid. He worked with Lavoisier on the decomposition of water and the evolution of hydrogen."
tagline: "French mathematician (1754-1793)"
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birthDate: "1754-06-19"
deathDate: "1793-06-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump