Rene Descartes did win any awards or special recognition.
Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes
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Wikipedia (a really wonderful source for things you're curious about!) says he lived 1596-1650. So the answer to your question would be no.
Two prominent founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, were "Children of the the Enlightenment". In other words, they were quite influenced by the teachings of people like John Locke, Rene Descartes, Baruch Spinoza, Immanuel Kant, Sir Isaac Newton, Voltaire, Jean Jacques Rousseau. The Declaration of Independence (1776), written by Jefferson, laid out the fundamental principles of America, in which he called for equality and liberty. Jefferson also advocated ending slavery and promoting religious tolerance, which was an immense part of the enlightened teachings.
Newton's Law of Inertia was discovered in part by Descartes. Newton concluded that an object at rest tends to stay at rest and an object in motion tends to stay in motion. Descartes discovered earlier that objects in motion continued in a straight line in motion.
John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Isaac Newton were three important Enlightenment thinkers. Others include David Hume, Francis Bacon, and Rene Descartes.
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Rene Descartes was a real person. Nobody invented him!
Rene Descartes was a French mathematician who created coordinated geometry.
Rene Descartes was the father of rationalism.
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Both Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes created scientific methods. Francis Bacon was a philosopher and Rene Descartes was a philosopher and mathematician.
Rene Descartes had a daughter named Francine Descartes, who tragically died as an infant at just five years old.
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It sounds like that Rene Descartes wanted to be a teacher and teach different types of subjects.