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Alexis Thérèse Petit

1791 - 1820

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Alexis Thérèse Petit (French: [pəti]; 2 October 1791, Vesoul, Haute-Saône – 21 June 1820, Paris) 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 24,706 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Alexis Thérèse Petit is the 538th most popular physicist (down from 468th in 2019), the 3,592nd most popular biography from France (down from 2,902nd in 2019) and the 58th most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Alexis Thérèse Petit ranks 538 out of 717. Before him are Augusto Righi, Antonio Pacinotti, James David Forbes, Brian Greene, Knut Ångström, and Alfred Kleiner. After him are Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Wallace Clement Sabine, William Edward Ayrton, Albert Betz, Jürgen Ehlers, and Dirk Coster.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1791, Alexis Thérèse Petit ranks 32. Before him are Theodor Körner, Friedrich von Gärtner, Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas, Jan Svatopluk Presl, Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, and Johan Ludvig Heiberg. After him are Václav Hanka, Robert Knox, Josef Munzinger, Adolf Ivar Arwidsson, Odilon Barrot, and William Elford Leach. Among people deceased in 1820, Alexis Thérèse Petit ranks 33. Before him are Benjamin West, Antonín Vranický, Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, Gerhard von Kügelgen, Karl Ludwig Sand, and Ivan Gudovich. After him are Nicolaus Michael Oppel, Palisot de Beauvois, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Charles Blagden, Stephen Decatur, and William Wyatt Bibb.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alexis Thérèse Petit ranks 3,592 out of 6,011. Before him are Gaston Defferre (1910), Christophe Galtier (1966), Jean-Louis de Rambures (1930), Louis-Antoine Ranvier (1835), Gérard Lanvin (1950), and Gérard Lenorman (1945). After him are Claude Puel (1961), Claude Dauphin (1903), Paul Taffanel (1844), Mathilda May (1965), Pierre Étaix (1928), and Henri Dutrochet (1776).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Alexis Thérèse Petit ranks 58. Before him are Jacques Babinet (1794), Jules Antoine Lissajous (1822), Claude Pouillet (1790), Pierre Victor Auger (1899), Pierre Weiss (1865), and Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700). After him are Gustave Trouvé (1839), Louis-François-Clement Breguet (1804), Ferdinand Monoyer (1836), Carl August von Steinheil (1801), Alfred Perot (1863), and Charles Fabry (1867).

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