Roger Joseph Boscovich
Croat physicist (1711–1787)
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Updated 2026-05-29
18th-century Jesuit polymath who did physics, astronomy, math, and diplomacy with equal fluency across Italy and France. Boscovich managed to be a legitimate scientist and a literal priest without the usual institutional contradiction.
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Roger Joseph Boscovich was a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, Jesuit priest, and a polymath from the Republic of Ragusa. He studied and lived in Italy and France where he also published many of his works.
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