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Article: Le Roy, Jean-Baptiste
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Le Roy, Jean-Baptiste
(
b.
Paris, France, 15 August 1720;
d.
Paris, 21 January 1800),
physics, scientific instrumentation
Son of the renowned clockmaker Julien Le Roy, Jean-Baptiste Le Roy was one of four brothers to achieve scientific prominence in Enlightenment France; the others were Charles Le Roy (medicine and chemistry), Julien-David Le Roy (architecture), and Pierre Le Roy(chronometry). Elected to the Acad
é
mie Royale des Sciences in 1751 as
adjoint g
é
om
è
tre,
Le Roy played an active role in technical as well as administrative aspects of French science for the next half-century. He was elected
pensionnaire m
é
canicies
in 1770 and director of the Academy for 1773 ...