Joseph Nicolas Nicollet, also known as Jean-Nicolas Nicollet, was a French geographer, astronomer and mathematician, born at Cluses in Savoy in 1786. He taught mathematics at Chambery and at the Collège Louis-le-Grand, and at the Paris Observatory he studied under Laplace and worked as an astronomer. His publications were all in cartography and mathematical astronomy. After political and academic changes in France he travelled to the United States, where in the 1830s he led three expeditions that mapped the Upper Mississippi River basin, mainly in Minnesota, South Dakota and North Dakota. He died in Washington, D.C., on 11 September 1843.
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was a French geographer, astronomer, and mathematician known for mapping the Upper Mississippi River basin during the 1830s.
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He was educated at the college in Cluses where his favourite subject was mathematics.
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