Joseph nicollet biography

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    Born
    29 July 1786
    Cluses, Savoy, France
    Died
    11 September 1843
    Washington, D.C., USA
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    Joseph Nicolas Nicollet was a French cartographer, astronomer and mathematician known for his expeditions to map the USA.

    Biography

    Jean-Nicolas Nicollet is also known as Joseph Nicolas Nicollet.

    He was educated at the college in Cluses where his favourite subject was mathematics. In 1805, at the age of nineteen, Nicollet became an assistant teacher of mathematics in Chambery. Wishing to further his education, he went to Paris and attended the École Normale Supérieur.

    He taught in Paris for a brief period before, in 1817, becoming secretary and librarian at the Paris Observatory.

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    • At the Observatory he continued his education, studying under Laplace. He continued teaching mathematics and, in 1818, he gives his posts as Astronomer attached to the Royal Observatory in Paris and Professor of Mathematics at the College of Louis-Le-Grand.



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