Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille was a French physicist and physiologist. Poiseuille was born in Paris, France, and he died there on 26 December 1869. Fluid flow From 1815 to 1816 he studied at the École Polytechnique in Paris. He was trained in physics and mathematics. In 1828 he earned his D.Sc. degree with a dissertation entitled Recherches sur la force du coeur aortique . He was interested in the flow of human blood in narrow tubes, and invented the U-tube mercury manometer to measure arterial blood pressures in horses and dogs.
