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    Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan (26 November 1678 – 20 February 1771) was a French natural philosopher (physicist), born in the town of Béziers on 26...
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    in the day and lower them at night, and experiments done by Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan on mimosas in 1729 provided the first evidence of biological...
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    constellation of Orion. It was discovered by the French scientist Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan some time before 1731, then catalogued by Charles Messier in...
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    artificial light as well as natural sunlight. The French scientist Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan was one of the first to study heliotropism when he experimented...
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  • Nobel prize 1965 Jean-Michel Macron (born 1950), neurologist Charles Madic (1942–2008), radiochemist Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan (1678–1771), geophysicist...
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    – Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden (b. 1710) February 20 – Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist (b. 1678) March 8 – Louis August le Clerc...
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  • 1733) October 27 – Pierre Raymond de Montmort, mathematician (died 1719) November 26 – Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, geophysicist (died 1771) December...
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  • (died 1849), German physician and obstetrician. February 20 – Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist, astronomer and chronobiologist (born...
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  • philosopher (d. 1735) 1678 – Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist and astronomer (d. 1771) 1679 – Isidro de Espinosa, Franciscan missionary...
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  • Tobias Mayer, German astronomer and academic (b. 1723) 1771 – Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist and astronomer (b. 1678) 1773 – Charles...
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  • Jean-Baptiste Lislet Geoffroy Maurice Loewy Jean-Pierre Luminet Bernard Lyot Louis Maillard Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan Giacomo F. Maraldi Giovanni Domenico...
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    Month and the Season of the Year. In 1729, French scientist Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan conducted the first experiment designed to distinguish an endogenous...
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    century in the movement of plant leaves by the French scientist Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan. In 1751 Swedish botanist and naturalist Carl Linnaeus (Carl...
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    Béziers (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Pellisson (1624–1693), author Jean Barbeyrac (1674?–1744), jurist Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan (1678–1771), geophysicist Jean-Henri-Nicolas Bouillet (1729–1790)...
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  • (1656–1742) Luigi Guido Grandi (1671–1742) Jakob Hermann (1678–1733) Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan (1678–1771) Nicolaus II Bernoulli (1695–1726) Pierre Louis...
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  • Robert Burnham Jr. De Mairan's Nebula (Messier 43) is part of the Orion molecular cloud complex, named after Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan Fleming 1 is a...
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    movements contributed by such scientists as Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan and Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau, de Candolle observed in 1832 that the plant...
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  • now as circadian rhythms, were first documented in 1729 by Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, a French astronomer who observed that mimosa plants (Mimosa...
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    1678 (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    October 16 – Anna Waser, Swiss painter (d. 1714) November 26 – Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist (d. 1771) December 8 – Horatio Walpole...
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  • been documented for centuries. For example, French astronomer Jean-Jacques d’Ortous de Mairan noted the periodic 24-hour movement of Mimosa plant leaves...
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