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Alexis Thérèse Petit

1791 - 1820

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Alexis Thérèse Petit (French: [pəti]; 2 October 1791 – 21 June 1820) was a French physicist. Petit is known for his work on the efficiencies of air- and steam-engines, published in 1818 (Mémoire sur l’emploi du principe des forces vives dans le calcul des machines). His well-known discussions with the French physicist Sadi Carnot, founder of thermodynamics, may have stimulated Carnot in his reflexions on heat engines and thermodynamic efficiency. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexis Thérèse Petit has received more than 26,701 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Alexis Thérèse Petit is the 570th most popular physicist (down from 538th in 2019), the 3,887th most popular biography from France (down from 3,576th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Alexis Thérèse Petit ranks 570 out of 851. Before him are Woldemar Voigt, Kenneth Bainbridge, August Beer, Carl August von Steinheil, Vladimir Veksler, and Nicholas Kurti. After him are Otto Lehmann, Gunnar Nordström, James David Forbes, Antonio Pacinotti, Ludvig Faddeev, and Jean Becquerel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1791, Alexis Thérèse Petit ranks 34. Before him are Louis Visconti, Theodor Körner, Václav Hanka, Johan Ludvig Heiberg, Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, and William Elford Leach. After him are Robert Knox, Josef Munzinger, Odilon Barrot, Adolf Ivar Arwidsson, Jean Cruveilhier, and József Katona. Among people deceased in 1820, Alexis Thérèse Petit ranks 33. Before him are Princess Adelheid of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, Gerhard von Kügelgen, Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, Antonín Vranický, Karl Ludwig Sand, and Ivan Gudovich. After him are Louise Caroline of Hochberg, Nicolaus Michael Oppel, Charles Blagden, Stephen Decatur, Claudine Picardet, and Benjamin Henry Latrobe.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alexis Thérèse Petit ranks 3,887 out of 6,770. Before him are Georgette Leblanc (1869), Virginie Despentes (1969), Lambert I of Nantes (796), Robert, Count of Mortain (1031), Daniel Boulanger (1922), and Hervé Faye (1814). After him are Victor Massé (1822), Philippe Mexès (1982), Yvette Chauviré (1917), Ker-Xavier Roussel (1867), Éléonore de Roye (1535), and Ermengarde of Anjou, Duchess of Burgundy (1018).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Alexis Thérèse Petit ranks 63. Before him are Jacques Babinet (1794), Claude Pouillet (1790), Gustave Trouvé (1839), Alfred Perot (1863), Pierre Weiss (1865), and Carl August von Steinheil (1801). After him are Jean Becquerel (1878), Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700), Prosper-René Blondlot (1849), Marcel Brillouin (1854), Ferdinand Monoyer (1836), and Thibault Damour (1951).

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