* Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), astronomer and physicist: Or a ladder of three rounds
per pale gules.
[His tomb in Santa Croce, Florence; also in Rietstap. His great-grandfather
was already armiger, as shown on his tomb in the same location.]
* Blaise Pascal (1623-62), mathematician, philosopher: Azure a Paschal lamb argent
holding a pennon of the last thereon a cross gules, and in chief dexter a five-pointed
star or.
[Jougla de Morenas]
* Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736-1833), mathematician: sable an equilateral triangle voided
or, beneath a crescent argent.
[Révérend. Count 1808.]
* Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743-93), chemist: Azure on a chevron argent between two
five-pointed stars in chief and a lion rampant in base argent, three ermine spots sable.
[Rietstap supplement, III p. 140. His ex-libris is shown, with lions as supporters
and a count's coronet.]
* Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827), geometrician, astronomer: Azure the two planets
Jupiter and Saturn with their satellites and ring in natural order, all argent, in fess,
in chief dexter a sun and in chief sinister a flower with five branches or; canton of
counts-senators.
[Révérend. Made count by Napoleon in 1808, marquis by Louis XVIII in 1817.]
* Claude-Louis Berthollet (1748-1822), chemist, participated in the Egyptian
expedition of 1798: per fess, 1: per pale Azure a chemistry apparatus argent and Gules
an ibis or, 2: Gules a greyhound rampant or.
[Rietstap]
* Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752-1833), mathematician: Per pale: 1, azure on a rock issuant
from a sea a tower embattled of five pieces, all argent; thereon a "fanal" argent allume
gueules; 2, sable a terrestrial globe beneath a hand holding a compass and measuring,
all or.
[Révérend. Made knight of the Empire by Napoleon, 1811. The second quarter
alludes to the measurements of the meridian.]
* Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), mathematician: Per fess, I. per pale Azure a fess argent
and Gules a wall embattled beneath an oak branch argent; II. Argent a bend sinister
chequy azure and or between two roosters azure.
[Jougla de Morenas. Made baron 1810.]
* Amedeo Avogadro (1776-1856), chemist and physicist, gave his name to the number 6.022*10E23: Gules 23 bezants, 5, 4, 5, 4, 3, and 2. [Rietstap]
* Augustin Cauchy (1789-1863), mathematician: Argent a tower thereon a rooster azure.
[Révérend. His father was made knight by Napoleon in 1808, and ennobled 1825.]
* Sadi Carnot (1796-1832), physicist: Azure three ducks and a five-pointed star in chief
argent.
[Jougla de Morenas. Arms used by his family, including Lazare Carnot and the President
of the Republic.]
* Wilhelm-Gottfried Leibnitz (1646-1716), philosopher, mathematician: quarterly
a stock (chicot) and a lion rampant.
[frontispiece of the Theodicea, Amsterdam edition, 1723. Rietstap states
that Leibnitz was made baron in Hannover in 1711, and that the tinctures of
the arms are unknown.]
* Emil von Behring (1854-1917), physician and Nobel laureate: checky
sable and argent, a snake vert twined around a dagger gules, point down.
On the helm a coronet, up from this dagger and snake as in the shield
between two wings checky.
[Klaus K]
* Carolus Linnæus (Carl von Linné, 1707-78):
Source: Uppsala Universitet
The charge
at the center is an egg, all living things come from an egg. The
crest shows a Linnaea borealis, a small, pinkish-white bell-shaped
flower that Linnaeus discovered on his first expedition, to Lapland
in 1734. He was ennobled by letter patent from King Adolf Fredrik
of Sweden 7th April 1757. He did not, however take his seat in the
Swedish House of Nobility until 1776, only a little more than one year
before his death on 10th January 1778.
[Jan Bohme]
* The Russian noble family Mendelejev, including the famous chemist
Dimitrij Mendelejev (1834-1907): quarterly, 1st and 4th field gules, an
ironclad arm proper holding a sword argent, issuing from a cloud argent.
2nd and 3rd field: vert, a horseshoe below a stirrup with a red ribbon(?),
all argent. In the center of this another shield: azure, a cross
patonce or between (above) three stars of five points and (below)
a crescent, all argent. On the helm a coronet, up from that three
white ostrich feathers. Supporters: two lions rampant regardant or,
standing on a green, grassy mound.
[Klaus K]
* Niels Bohr (1885-1962): knighted in 1947 for "outstanding achievements
in science and important contributions to Danish cultural life". He
received the Order of the Elephant, an extremely prestigious award (he
was the last to receive it who was not a royal or a head of state).
Arms: Argent a t'ai chi gules and azure.
The motto is "Contraria sunt complementa".
[Jeremy Daniel Buhler, citing Fritjof Capra's "The Tao of Physics".]
* The marquis lineage Marconi, including the physicist Guglielmo
Marconi (1874-1937): under a capo d'angio party per pale azure and argent,
two lions rampant counter changed facing each other. In the
centre of the shield a fleur-de-lis or. On the helm a marquis'
coronet, no crest.
[Klaus K]
* Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, a.k.a. Paracelsus (1493-1541):
Argent, an inescutcheon surrounded by eight crosses formy cooped sable.
The inescutcheon: or, a bend sinister azure charged with 3 roundels
argent. Or maybe it is a very broad bordure. On the helm a hat,
or with bend and roundels as in the shield, topped with some sort
of feathers, I think, There are six of them, and they are black.
[Klaus K]
* Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727): Sable, two shin bones in saltire argent.
[A. Wagner]
