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On January 4, 2012, the centenary of Henri Poincar\'e's death, a colloquiumwas held in Nancy, France the subject of which was "Vers une biographie d'HenriPoincar\'e". Scholars discussed several approaches for writing a biography ofPoincar\'e. In this paper I present a personal and scientific biographicalsketch of Poincar\'e, which does not in any way reflect Poincar\'e's richpersonality and immense activity in science: When Poincar\'e traveled to partsof Europe, Africa and America, his companions noticed that he knew welleverything from statistics to history and curious customs and habits ofpeoples. He was almost teaching everything in science. He was so encyclopedicthat he dealt with the outstanding questions in the different branches ofphysics and mathematics; he had altered whole fields of science such asnon-Euclidean geometry, Arithmetic, celestial mechanics, thermodynamics andkinetic theory, optics, electrodynamics, Maxwell's theory, and other topicsfrom the forefront of Fin de Si\`ecle physical science. It is interesting tonote that as opposed to the prosperity of biographies and secondary papersstudying the life and scientific contributions of Albert Einstein, one findsmuch less biographies and secondary sources discussing Poincar\'e's life andwork. As opposed to Einstein, Poincar\'e was not a cultural icon. Beginning in1920 Einstein became a myth and a world famous figure. Although Poincar\'e wasso brilliant in mathematics, he mainly remained a famous mathematician withinthe professional circle of scientists. He published more papers than Einstein,performed research in many more branches of physics and mathematics, receivedmore prizes on his studies, and was a member of more academies in the wholeworld. Despite this tremendous yield, Poincar\'e did not win the Nobel Prize.

A Biography of Henri Poincar\'e - 2012 Centenary of the Death of Poincar\'e