Joseph Louis Lagrange ( 1736 - 1813 )

Birth: Turin, Italy (25 January 1736) Death: Paris, France (10 April 1813) Burial: Pantheon, Paris Research Field: Mechanics, celestial mechanics, astronomy, mathematics Career: Professor of Mathematics, Royal School of Artillery, Turin (1754); Director, Berlin Academy (1766); went to Prussia (1766-1787); published "Mecanique analytique" (1788); went to Paris after death of Frederick the Great, lodged in the Louvre and received pension of 6,000 francs; Professor, Normal and Polytechnic Schools and member of the Bureau des Longitudes (after the Revolution); made a member of the Senate and a Count by Napoleon Membership: Fellow Election Date: 5/05/1791.