This is a list of notable people affiliated with the École Polytechnique. -
[edit] Notable alumni Alumni of the École Polytechnique are traditionally referred to as “X”, or “Xnnnn”, where nnnn stands for the year of admission into the school. [edit] Scientists and engineers - Michel Virlogeux (X1967), engineer of the Millau Viaduct
- Benoît Mandelbrot (X1944), promoted the concept of 'fractals'
- Louis Leprince-Ringuet (X1920)
- André Lévêque (X1919), Corps of Mines, scientist
- Paul Lévy (X1908), one of the forefathers of the modern theory of stochastic processes
- Émile Lemoine (X1866)
- Eugène Freyssinet (X1899), developed the prestressed concrete
- Georges Charpy (X1887), invented the Charpy impact test
- Henri Poincaré (X1873)
- Henri Becquerel (X1872), physicist, Nobel laureate, one of the discoverers of radioactivity
- Henri-Louis le Chatelier (X1869)
- Émile Clapeyron (X1816)
- Auguste Comte (X1814)
- Michel Chasles (X1812)
- Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (X1812) French physicist, mathematician and engineer who gave the first successful theoretical account of heat engines, the Carnot cycle, and laid the foundations of the second law of thermodynamics.
- Gustave Coriolis (X1808)
- Augustin Louis Cauchy (X1805), mathematician, formulated the residue theorem
- Augustin Fresnel (X1804), physicist, major contributor to wave optics
- André-Marie Ampère (X1803), physicist, co-discoverer of electromagnetism
- François Arago (X1803)
- Claude-Louis Navier (X1802)
- Siméon-Denis Poisson (X1798)
- Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac (X1797)
- Étienne-Louis Malus (X1795)
- Jean-Baptiste Biot (X1794)
- Maurice Allais, Nobel prize in Economics,
- Edmond Malinvaud
- Charles Joseph Minard (X1796), civil engineer noted for inventions in the field of Information graphics
- Henri Brocard, (X1865) mathematician, Brocard points named for him.
- Charle-Michel Marle, (X1953) mathematician
- Vincent Saubestre (X1983)
- Pierre Schaeffer (X1929)
- Bui Huy Duong (X1957), French Academy of Sciences, European Academy of Sciences
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