Great French mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to the fields of mathematics and physics though he opposed the wave theory of light. He is best remembered for the Poisson distribution, Poisson ratio, Poisson algebra amongst others.
Siméon Denis Poisson was born on 21 June, 1781
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