Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis ( 1698 - 1759 )

Birth: St-Malo, France (17 July or 28 September 1698) Death: Basel, Switzerland (27 July 1759) Burial: Dornach, Switzerland Research Field: Mathematics, biology, physics Education: Paris Career: Travelled to London (1728); became foremost proponent of Newtonianism in France; travelled to Basel, where he was befriended by the Bernoulli family; led the French expedition to Lapland to measure a degree of Longitude (1735); travelled to Berlin at the request of Frederick the Great (1738); served with Frederick in the War of the Austrian Succession; moved to Berlin (1745); returned to St Malo when his health broke down after a quarrel with his former pupil Samuel Konig and his friend Voltaire (1752); returned to Berlin (1755-1756); travelled to Switzerland (1758) Memberships: Academie Royale des Sciences (1723); Academie Francaise (1744); Berlin Academy (President 1746-1756) Membership: Fellow Election Date: 27/06/1728.