Famous People with Name Achille

Achille Brocot            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Achille Brocot: was a French clockmaker[1] and amateur mathematician.[2] He is known for his discovery (independently of and contemporaneously with German number theorist Moritz Stern) of the Stern–Brocot tree, a mathematical structure useful in approximating real numbers by rational numbers; this sort of approximation is an important part of the design of gear ratios for clocks.[3] He also made many other horological innovations including refinement of his father Louis-Gabriel's Brocot escapement and the development of clocks with perpetual calendar mechanisms.[4][5]

Achille-Louis Foville            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Achille-Louis Foville: was a French neurologist and psychiatrist. He produced the first description of the terminal stria.[1] Foville spent time travelling abroad, to Africa and America. He returned to France, settling in Paris. After the death of his former teacher Esquirol in 1840, Foville was made a professor at Charenton. Until the appointment Thomas Hodgkin had been attempting to open a facility for the treatment of mental illnesses to compete with the York Retreat. With Foville's appointment to Charenton, Fhe was no longer willing to relocate to England

Achille Marozzo            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Achille Marozzo: was an Italian fencing master teaching in the Dardi or Bolognese tradition. Marozzo was probably born in Bologna. His text Opera Nova dell'Arte delle Armi (roughly equivalent to "The New Text on the Art of Arms") was published in 1536 in Modena, dedicated