Louis Poinsot was a French mathematician and physicist. Poinsot was the inventor of geometrical mechanics, showing how a system of forces acting on a rigid body could be resolved into a single force and a couple.
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FranceCategory
Academics
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Academic
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deceased
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Lived 1777 to 1859 · aged 82
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