Mathematician:E. Fauquembergue

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Proved (simultaneously with R.E. Powers) that $2^{107} - 1$ is prime.

As some of Fauquembergue's claims of the primality of other Mersenne numbers proved to be incorrect, this result is usually attributed to Powers rather than to Fauquembergue.