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Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

BIRTH DATE:  11/16/1717
DEATH DATE:  10/29/1783
CRAFT:  Mathematics
NATIONALITY:  French
PROFESSION:  mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist.
TRAVELS:  Author of D'Alembert's paradox, aka the hydrodynamic paradox (1752) in fluid dynamics, which proved that for incompressible and inviscid potential flow the drag force is zero on a body moving with constant velocity relative to the fluid.
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