1791 - 1820
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, 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.
1850 - 1920
HPI: 49.76
Rank: 532
1841 - 1912
HPI: 49.76
Rank: 533
1809 - 1868
HPI: 49.74
Rank: 534
1963 - Present
HPI: 49.61
Rank: 535
1857 - 1910
HPI: 49.58
Rank: 536
1849 - 1916
HPI: 49.51
Rank: 537
1791 - 1820
HPI: 49.43
Rank: 538
1893 - 1972
HPI: 49.39
Rank: 539
1868 - 1919
HPI: 49.39
Rank: 540
1847 - 1908
HPI: 49.37
Rank: 541
1885 - 1968
HPI: 49.34
Rank: 542
1929 - 2008
HPI: 49.33
Rank: 543
1889 - 1950
HPI: 49.31
Rank: 544
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.
1791 - 1813
HPI: 51.13
Rank: 26
1791 - 1847
HPI: 51.06
Rank: 27
1791 - 1865
HPI: 50.97
Rank: 28
1791 - 1849
HPI: 50.51
Rank: 29
1791 - 1863
HPI: 50.04
Rank: 30
1791 - 1860
HPI: 49.90
Rank: 31
1791 - 1820
HPI: 49.43
Rank: 32
1791 - 1861
HPI: 49.22
Rank: 33
1791 - 1862
HPI: 48.60
Rank: 34
1791 - 1855
HPI: 48.60
Rank: 35
1791 - 1858
HPI: 47.65
Rank: 36
1791 - 1873
HPI: 47.44
Rank: 37
1791 - 1836
HPI: 46.35
Rank: 38
1738 - 1820
HPI: 52.02
Rank: 27
1761 - 1820
HPI: 51.25
Rank: 28
1748 - 1820
HPI: 51.08
Rank: 29
1772 - 1820
HPI: 50.58
Rank: 30
1795 - 1820
HPI: 49.76
Rank: 31
1741 - 1820
HPI: 49.76
Rank: 32
1791 - 1820
HPI: 49.43
Rank: 33
1782 - 1820
HPI: 46.71
Rank: 34
1752 - 1820
HPI: 45.40
Rank: 35
1764 - 1820
HPI: 44.61
Rank: 36
1748 - 1820
HPI: 44.50
Rank: 37
1779 - 1820
HPI: 43.48
Rank: 38
1781 - 1820
HPI: 39.53
Rank: 39
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).
1910 - 1986
HPI: 49.45
Rank: 3,586
1966 - Present
HPI: 49.45
Rank: 3,587
1930 - 2006
HPI: 49.45
Rank: 3,588
1835 - 1922
HPI: 49.44
Rank: 3,589
1950 - Present
HPI: 49.44
Rank: 3,590
1945 - Present
HPI: 49.44
Rank: 3,591
1791 - 1820
HPI: 49.43
Rank: 3,592
1961 - Present
HPI: 49.43
Rank: 3,593
1903 - 1978
HPI: 49.43
Rank: 3,594
1844 - 1908
HPI: 49.42
Rank: 3,595
1965 - Present
HPI: 49.42
Rank: 3,596
1928 - 2016
HPI: 49.42
Rank: 3,597
1776 - 1847
HPI: 49.41
Rank: 3,598
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).
1794 - 1872
HPI: 52.42
Rank: 52
1822 - 1880
HPI: 52.28
Rank: 53
1790 - 1868
HPI: 51.62
Rank: 54
1899 - 1993
HPI: 51.33
Rank: 55
1865 - 1940
HPI: 51.07
Rank: 56
1700 - 1782
HPI: 50.94
Rank: 57
1791 - 1820
HPI: 49.43
Rank: 58
1839 - 1902
HPI: 49.22
Rank: 59
1804 - 1883
HPI: 49.18
Rank: 60
1836 - 1912
HPI: 48.96
Rank: 61
1801 - 1870
HPI: 48.88
Rank: 62
1863 - 1925
HPI: 48.51
Rank: 63
1867 - 1945
HPI: 46.70
Rank: 64