List of the 72 names on the Eiffel Tower

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On the Eiffel Tower, seventy-two names of French scientists, engineers, and mathematicians are engraved in recognition of their contributions.wikipedia
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André-Marie Ampère

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Michel Eugène Chevreul

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He is also one of the 72 people whose names are inscribed on the Eiffel Tower; of those 72 scientists and engineers, Chevreul was one of only two who were still alive when Gustave Eiffel planted the French Tricolor on the top of the tower on 31 March 1889 (the other being Hippolyte Fizeau) and was the last living individual born before the French Revolution.
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Jean-Victor Poncelet

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Louis Didier Jousselin

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Henri Tresca

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Ernest Goüin

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Jérôme Lalande

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Antoine Lavoisier

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Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

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Michel Chasles

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Marc Seguin

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Joseph-Louis Lagrange

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Louis Le Chatelier

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Jean-Antoine Chaptal

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Augustin-Louis Cauchy

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Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse

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Claude-Louis Navier

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Hippolyte Fizeau

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Eugène Schneider

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Jean-Augustin Barral

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Jacques Triger

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