PHYSICIST

Alfred Perot

1863 - 1925

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Jean-Baptiste Alfred Perot (French: [pəʁo]; 3 November 1863 – 28 November 1925) was a French physicist. Together with his colleague Charles Fabry he developed the Fabry–Pérot interferometer in 1899.The French Academy of Sciences awarded him the Janssen Medal for 1912. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfred Perot has received more than 23,670 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Alfred Perot is the 542nd most popular physicist (up from 572nd in 2019), the 3,615th most popular biography from France (up from 3,745th in 2019) and the 60th most popular French Physicist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.92

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  • 1.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Alfred Perots by language

Over the past year Alfred Perot has had the most page views in the with 2,475 views, followed by French (1,742), and Chinese (1,245). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hebrew (89.06%), Dutch (63.54%), and Southern Azerbaijani (62.63%)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Alfred Perot ranks 542 out of 851. Before him are Leonid Mandelstam, Knut Ångström, Dmitri Ivanenko, Abraham Alikhanov, Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, and John Sealy Townsend. After him are Artem Alikhanian, Heinz von Foerster, Norman Holter, Lev Artsimovich, C. P. Snow, and Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Alfred Perot ranks 102. Before him are Lucien Pissarro, Ernst II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Francis Younghusband, Władysław Horodecki, Edith Durham, and Lyubomir Miletich. After him are Milka Ternina, Bob Fitzsimmons, C. Aubrey Smith, Ljubomir Davidović, Aurel Popovici, and Arno Holz. Among people deceased in 1925, Alfred Perot ranks 96. Before him are Fanny Bullock Workman, Carl Neumann, Otto Wilhelm Thomé, Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, Giovanni Battista Grassi, and J. M. E. McTaggart. After him are Ephraim Moses Lilien, Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg, George Bellows, Anna Kuliscioff, Geo Milev, and Ioan Slavici.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alfred Perot ranks 3,615 out of 6,770. Before him are Robbie Ross (1869), Louis Boyer (1901), Alphonse Beau de Rochas (1815), Josiane Balasko (1950), Maxime Bossis (1955), and Honoré Charles Reille (1775). After him are Louis Pergaud (1882), Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires (1753), David Belle (1973), Viviane Romance (1912), Germaine Tillion (1907), and Françoise d'Eaubonne (1920).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Alfred Perot ranks 60. Before him are Pierre Victor Auger (1899), Gaspard de Prony (1755), Marie Alfred Cornu (1841), Jacques Babinet (1794), Claude Pouillet (1790), and Gustave Trouvé (1839). After him are Pierre Weiss (1865), Carl August von Steinheil (1801), Alexis Thérèse Petit (1791), Jean Becquerel (1878), Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700), and Prosper-René Blondlot (1849).

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