Siméon Denis Poisson
French mathematician, mechanician and physicist (1781–1840)
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Updated 2026-05-29
French mathematician who spread himself across statistics, physics, and basically everything in between—accidentally proved the wave theory he was trying to debunk by predicting the Arago spot.
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Baron Siméon Denis Poisson was a French mathematician and physicist who worked on statistics, complex analysis, partial differential equations, the calculus of variations, analytical mechanics, electricity and magnetism, thermodynamics, elasticity, and fluid mechanics. Moreover, he predicted the Arago spot in his attempt to disprove the wave theory of Augustin-Jean Fresnel.
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