Poisson
Poisson stands for:
- Poisson (unit) , a French measure of volume
- Poisson (moon crater) , named after Siméon Denis Poisson
- (12874) Poisson , asteroid of the main belt
Poisson is the family name of the following people:
- André Poisson (1923-2005), French monk; Minister General of the Carthusian Order
- David Poisson (1982-2017), French ski racer
- Georges Poisson (* 1924), French architectural and literary historian
- Henri Louis Poisson (1877–1963), French botanist
- Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, known as Madame de Pompadour (1721–1764), French lady-in-waiting and mistress
- Louis François Poisson, Marquis de Marigny = Louis Fischer (painter) (1784–1845), French-German painter
- Raymond Poisson (writer) (around 1633–1690), French writer
- Raymond Poisson (entomologist) (1895–1973), French entomologist
- Raymond Poisson (Bishop) (* 1958), Canadian clergyman, Bishop of Saint-Jérộme and Mont-Laurier
- Siméon Denis Poisson (1781–1840), French physicist and mathematician
- Theodor Fischer-Poisson (1817–1873), German painter
- Toussaint Poisson (1797–1861), French composer and music teacher
Poisson is the name of the following municipality:
- Poisson (Saône-et-Loire) in the French department of Saône-et-Loire
See also:
- Poisson spot in optics
- Poisson's equation in electrostatics
- Poisson Hill , hill on Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica
- Poisson bracket in mechanics
- Poisson process in stochastics
- Poisson distribution in stochastics
- Poisson-Boltzmann equation for electrostatic interactions
- Poisson's sum formula in signal processing
- Poisson's number , Poisson's ratio in strength theory
- Poissons
