Denis Papin ( 1647 - 1712 )

Birth: Chitenay, near Blois, France (22 August 1647) Death: Whitefryors [White Friars Street, London, England, United Kingdom] (August 1713) Burial: St Bride's Church, Fleet Street (26 August 1713) Research Field: Technology Education: Angers; graduated (1669) Career: Assistant to Christian Huyghens (FRS 1663) in the laboratory of the Academie Royale des Sciences; moved to London (1675); assistant to Robert Boyle (FRS 1663) (1675-1679); Assistant to Robert Hooke (FRS 1663), Curator of the Royal Society (1679); returned to Paris (1680); Curator of the Accademia Sarottiana in Venice (1681-1684); Curator of Experiments at the Royal Society (1684-1688); Professor of Mathematics at the University of Marburg (1688-1695); moved to Kassel, where he assisted the Landgrave of Hesse with his experiments (1695-1707); returned to London (1707); died of 'consumption' or tuberculosis at Whitefriars Street, London (1713) Membership: Fellow Election Date: 31/12/1680.