Joseph Duval-Jouve
(1815/1883)
Botaniste, naturaliste et géologue, il s’est surtout intéressé aux prêles et aux fougères.
Jean Dybowski
(1856 /1928)
Ingénieur agricole et explorateur français d’origine polonaise. Passionné d’ornithologie, il envoya au Muséum national d’histoire naturelle de nombreux spécimens d’oiseaux qui furent décrites par Émile Oustalet.
Thomas Edison
(1847/1931)
American inventor, scientist and industrialist. Founder of General Electric, prolific inventor (more than 1,000 patents),pioneer of electricity and cinema.
William Frederic Edwards
(1777/1842)
Ethnology, founder of the Ethnological Society of Paris (1839); remained famous for his study, On the Physiological Characteristics of Human Races, in which he established comparisons between the different races.
Francis Henry Egerton
(1756/1829)
Naturalist and antiquarian, also a great collector of autographs – his collection is now in the British Museum.
Gustave Eiffel
(1832/1923)
Engineer specializing in metal constructions. One of the founders of aerodynamics.
Léonce Elie de Beaumont
(1798/1874)
Geologist, permanent secretary of the Academy of Sciences.