Rene-Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur ( 1683 - 1757 )

Birth: La Rochelle, France (28 February 1683) Death: Near St-Julien-du-Terroux, France (17 or 18 October 1757) Research Field: Mathematics, technology, natural history, biology, experimental physics Asked in 1709 by the French government to find uses for spider silk, and demonstrated that it was useable for fabrics in the same manner as the silk of silkworms.