List of names on the Eiffel Tower

Location

The list is split in four parts (one for each side of the tower). The sides have been named after the parts of Paris that each side faces:

• The North-East side (also known as La Bourdonnais side)

Petiet, Daguerre, Wurtz, Le Verrier, Perdonnet, Delambre, Malus, Breguet, Polonceau, Dumas, Clapeyron, Borda, Fourier, Bichat, Sauvage, Pelouze, Carnot, Lamé

• The South-East side (also known as the Military School side)

Cauchy, Belgrand, Regnault, Fresnel, De Prony, Vicat, Ebelmen, Coulomb, Poinsot, Foucault, Delaunay, Morin, Haüy, Combes, Thénard, Arago, Poisson, Monge

• The South-West side (also known as the Grenelle side)

Jamin, Gay-Lussac, Fizeau, Schneider, Le Chatelier, Berthier, Barral, De Dion, Goüin, Jousselin, Broca, Becquerel, Coriolis, Cail, Triger, Giffard, Perrier, Sturm

• The North West side (also known as the Trocadéro side)

Seguin, Lalande, Tresca, Poncelet, Bresse, Lagrange, Belanger, Cuvier, Laplace, Dulong, Chasles, Lavoisier, Ampère, Chevreul, Flachat, Navier, Legendre, Chaptal

Names

In the table below are all the names on the four sides.

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Name appearing	Full name	Occupation	Location	Portrait
SEGUIN	Marc Seguin	engineer	NW01
LALANDE	Jérôme Lalande	astronomer	NW02
TRESCA	Henri Tresca	engineer and mechanic	NW03
PONCELET	Jean-Victor Poncelet	geometer	NW04
BRESSE	Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse	civil engineer and hydraulic engineer	NW05
LAGRANGE	Joseph-Louis Lagrange	mathematician	NW06
BELANGER	Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger	mathematician and hydraulic engineer	NW07
CUVIER	Georges Cuvier	naturalist	NW08
LAPLACE	Pierre-Simon Laplace	mathematician and astronomer	NW09
DULONG	Pierre Louis Dulong	physicist and chemist	NW10
CHASLES	Michel Chasles	geometer	NW11
LAVOISIER	Antoine Lavoisier	chemist	NW12
AMPERE	André-Marie Ampère	mathematician and physicist	NW13
CHEVREUL	Michel Eugène Chevreul	chemist	NW14
FLACHAT	Eugène Flachat	civil engineer	NW15
NAVIER	Claude-Louis Marie Henri Navier	mathematician	NW16
LEGENDRE	Adrien-Marie Legendre	mathematician	NW17
CHAPTAL	Jean-Antoine Chaptal	agronomist and chemist	NW18
JAMIN	Jules Jamin	physicist	SW01
GAY-LUSSAC	Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac	chemist	SW02
FIZEAU	Hippolyte Fizeau	physicist	SW03
SCHNEIDER	Eugène Schneider	industrialist	SW04
LE CHATELIER	Louis Le Chatelier	engineer	SW05
BERTHIER	Pierre Berthier	mineralogist	SW06
BARRAL	Jean-Augustin Barral	agronomist, chemist, physicist	SW07
DE DION	Henri de Dion[a]	engineer	SW08
GOUIN	Ernest Goüin	engineer and industrialist	SW09
JOUSSELIN	Louis Didier Jousselin	engineer	SW10
BROCA	Paul Broca	physician and anthropologist	SW11
BECQUEREL	Antoine César Becquerel	physicist	SW12
CORIOLIS	Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis	engineer and scientist	SW13
CAIL	Jean-François Cail	industrialist	SW14
TRIGER	Jacques Triger	engineer	SW15
GIFFARD	Henri Giffard	engineer	SW16
PERRIER	François Perrier	geographer and mathematician	SW17
STURM	Jacques Charles François Sturm	mathematician	SW18
CAUCHY	Augustin-Louis Cauchy	mathematician	SE01
BELGRAND	Eugène Belgrand	engineer	SE02
REGNAULT	Henri Victor Regnault	chemist and physicist	SE03
FRESNEL	Augustin-Jean Fresnel	civil engineer and physicist	SE04
DE PRONY	Gaspard de Prony	engineer	SE05
VICAT	Louis Vicat	engineer	SE06
EBELMEN	Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen	chemist	SE07
COULOMB	Charles-Augustin de Coulomb	physicist	SE08
POINSOT	Louis Poinsot	mathematician	SE09
FOUCAULT	Léon Foucault	physicist	SE10
DELAUNAY	Charles-Eugène Delaunay	astronomer	SE11
MORIN	Arthur Morin	mathematician and physicist	SE12
HAUY	René Just Haüy	mineralogist	SE13
COMBES	Charles Combes	engineer and metallurgist	SE14
THENARD	Louis Jacques Thénard	chemist	SE15
ARAGO	François Arago	astronomer and physicist	SE16
POISSON	Siméon Denis Poisson	mathematician and physicist	SE17
MONGE	Gaspard Monge	geometer	SE18
PETIET	Jules Petiet	engineer	NE01
DAGUERRE	Louis Daguerre	artist and chemist	NE02
WURTZ	Charles-Adolphe Wurtz	chemist	NE03
LE VERRIER	Urbain Le Verrier	astronomer	NE04
PERDONNET	Albert Auguste Perdonnet	engineer	NE05
DELAMBRE	Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre	astronomer	NE06
MALUS	Étienne-Louis Malus	physicist	NE07
BREGUET	Louis Breguet	physicist and inventor	NE08
POLONCEAU	Camille Polonceau	engineer	NE09
DUMAS	Jean-Baptiste Dumas	chemist	NE10
CLAPEYRON	Émile Clapeyron	engineer and physicist	NE11
BORDA	Jean-Charles de Borda	mathematician	NE12
FOURIER	Joseph Fourier	mathematician	NE13
BICHAT	Marie François Xavier Bichat	anatomist and physiologist	NE14
SAUVAGE	François Clément Sauvage	engineer and geologist	NE15
PELOUZE	Théophile-Jules Pelouze	chemist	NE16
CARNOT	Lazare Carnot[b]	mathematician	NE17
LAME	Gabriel Lamé	mathematician	NE18

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Women

The list contains no women. The list has been particularly criticized for excluding the name of Sophie Germain, a noted French mathematician whose work on the theory of elasticity was used in the construction of the tower itself.^[4] In 1913, John Augustine Zahm suggested that Germain was excluded because she was a woman.^[5]

An Eiffel Tower tour guide, Benjamin Rigaud, would point out to visitors the 72 names of scientists on the tower, but he was surprised to find that there were no women included. He noticed that there were 40 spaces on the tower's second floor and this matched the number of women identified in a Femmes et Sciences document. This led to the idea of a project, to include the missing women, which was named after Hypatia, the fourth century CE Alexandrian mathematician. The idea was taken up by Nathalie Drach-Temam, President of Sorbonne University.^[6]

It was decided that only those women scientists who had an association with France should be considered. Rigaud was keen to see scientists who had lived and worked in France included, such as Japanese physicist Toshiko Yuasa, Senegalese-born computer scientist Rose Dieng-Kuntz, and Tunisian-born engineer Radhia Cousot.^[6]

In 2025, Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo named a commission of experts to consider the project. The commission's report was positive and advocated inscribing the names of 72 female scientists adjacent to those of the 72 male scientists, to reflect full equality. The Association Femmes & Sciences was tasked with preparing a list of women scientists to be commemorated. In January 2026, the Association unveiled a proposed list of late 72 women scientists from 1789 to the present. In 2026, the list was awaiting acceptance by the mayor, the Académie des Sciences, the Académie des Technologies and the Académie nationale de médecine.^[7]

The suggested women are Denise Albe-Fessard, Yvette Amice, Jeanne Baret, Denise Barthomeuf, Madeleine Brès, Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, Simonne Caillère, Yvette Cauchois, Edmée Chandon, Marthe Condat, Anita Conti, Eugénie Cotton, Radhia Cousot, Odile Croissant, Marie Curie, Augusta Dejerine-Klumpke, Henriette Delamarre, Georgette Délibrias, Nathalie Demassieux, Rose Dieng, Angélique du Coudray, Louise du Pierry, Henriette Mathieu-Faraggi, Jacqueline Ferrand, Jacqueline Ficini, Rosalind Franklin, Marthe Gautier, Sophie Germain, Jeanne Guiot, Geneviève Guitel, Sébastienne Guyot, Claudine Hermann, Andrée Hoppilliard, Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin, Irène Joliot-Curie, Geneviève Jourdain, Dorothéa Klumpke, Lydie Koch-Miramond, Colette Kreder, Nicole Laroche, Cornélie Lebon-de Brambilla, Yolande Le Calvez, Paulette Libermann, Marianne Grunberg-Manago, Nicole Mangin, Cécile Morette, Édith Mourier, Ethel Moustacchi, Suzanne Noël, Yvonne Odic, Isabelle Olivieri, Marie-Louise Paris, Marguerite Perey, Claudine Picardet, Alberte Pullman, Pauline Ramart, Lucie Randoin, Alice Recoque, Michelle Schatzman, Anne-Marcelle Schrameck, Marie-Hélène Schwartz, Josiane Serre, Alice Sollier, Hélène Sparrow, Bianca Tchoubar, Marie-Antoinette Tonnelat, Thérèse Tréfouël, Agnès Ullmann, Arlette Vassy, Suzanne Veil, Jeanne Villepreux and Toshiko Yuasa.^[8][7]

The names were chosen based on a number of criteria. They had to have lived after 1789, which excluded the leading chemists Marie Meurdrac and Émilie du Châtelet. They could not have a name that was already on the tower, so this excluded Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier, whose first husband Antoine Lavoisier's name is one of the original men of science. Additionally, their name could not be too long, like Marie Geneviève Charlotte Thiroux d’Arconville. Rosalind Franklin was allowed exceptionally because of her association with France as the criteria had been that they should all be French.^[9]

Hydraulic engineers and scholars

Eiffel acknowledged most of the leading French scientists in the field of hydraulic engineering; fourteen of them are listed on the Eiffel Tower. Among those missing are Henri Philibert Gaspard Darcy, whose work did not come into wide use until the 20th century, Antoine Chézy, and Joseph Valentin Boussinesq, who was early in his career at the time.^[10] The renowned mathematician Évariste Galois is also absent from the list, as are Joseph Liouville and Charles Hermite, two other famous French mathematicians.