Dupré

Athanase Louis Victoire Dupré

Born: 28 Dec 1808 in Cerisiers, France
Died: 10 Aug 1869 in Rennes, France

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Dupré was educated at École Normale Supérieure in Paris and taught in Rennes all his life as a lecturer, professor and finally as Dean of Science. Dupré won (jointly) the 1858 Academy prize for a paper on Legendre's theory of numbers. Later in his career he studied the mechanical theory of heat.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. S Sirodot, Athanase Louis Victoire Dupré, Université de France. Académie de Rennes (Rennes, 1869), 52-57. 
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