Skip to definition.
Get the FREE one-click dictionary software for Windows or the iPhone/iPad and Android apps


Noun: Marquis de Laplace
  1. French mathematician and astronomer who formulated the nebular hypothesis concerning the origins of the solar system and who developed the theory of probability (1749-1827)
    - Pierre-Simon Laplace, Laplace, Pierre Simon de Laplace

Type of: astronomer, mathematician, stargazer, uranologist

Nearest

Marquesas Islands
marquess
Marquess of Salisbury
marqueterie
marquetry
Marquette
marquis
Marquis
Marquis de Condorcet
Marquis de Lafayette
Marquis de Laplace
Marquis de Sade
marquisate
marquise
Marquise de Maintenon
Marquise de Montespan
Marquise de Pompadour
Marrakech
Marrakesh
marram
marram grass