Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis

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French person astronomer human mathematician philosopher physicist

Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis was an 18th-century French mathematician, philosopher, and astronomer best known for formulating the principle of least action and helping introduce Newtonian physics to continental Europe.

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Moreau de Maupertuis ×1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	French person → astronomer → human → mathematician → philosopher → physicist →
appointedBy	Frederick II of Prussia →
birthCountry	France →
birthDate	1698-09-28 →
birthPlace	Saint-Malo →
citizenship	Kingdom of France →
deathCountry	Switzerland →
deathDate	1759-07-27 →
deathPlace	Basel →
education	Collège de la Marche →
era	18th century →
familyName	Moreau de Maupertuis →
fieldOfWork	astronomy → mathematics → philosophy → physics →
gender	male →
givenName	Pierre-Louis →
influenced	Joseph-Louis Lagrange → Leonhard Euler →
influencedBy	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz → Isaac Newton →
knownFor	expedition to Lapland to measure the shape of the Earth → introduction of Newtonian physics to continental Europe → principle of least action →
language	French →
memberOf	French Academy of Sciences → Prussian Academy of Sciences →
movement	Enlightenment →
name	Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis →
notableWork	Discours sur les différentes figures des astres → Essai de cosmologie → Lettres → Vénus physique →
positionHeld	President of the Prussian Academy of Sciences →
researchInterest	biology → celestial mechanics → optics → shape of the Earth →
supportedTheory	Newtonian theory of universal gravitation →
theory	formulation of the principle of least action in mechanics →
tookPartIn	French Geodesic Mission to Lapland →
verified	oblateness of the Earth at the poles →

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Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis ("Moreau de Maupertuis") →	familyName
Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis →	name
Prussian Academy of Sciences →	notableMember