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Ami Argand

1750 - 1803

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François-Pierre-Amédée Argand, known as Ami Argand (5 July 1750 – 14 or 24 October 1803) was a Genevan physicist and chemist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ami Argand has received more than 31,629 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Ami Argand is the 332nd most popular physicist (up from 341st in 2019), the 145th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 164th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Swiss Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Ami Argand ranks 332 out of 851. Before him are John B. Goodenough, Luis Walter Alvarez, Daniel C. Tsui, Félix Savart, Joseph Swan, and Pierre Louis Dulong. After him are Donna Strickland, Otto Schmidt, Frank Wilczek, Ferenc Krausz, Frank Oppenheimer, and Philip Abelson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1750, Ami Argand ranks 13. Before him are Archduchess Maria Johanna Gabriela of Austria, Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Francisco de Miranda, Heshen, Murad Bey, and Maria Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Massa. After him are Karl August von Hardenberg, Adam Afzelius, Sheikh Mansur, Henri Grégoire, Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, and Lorenzo Mascheroni. Among people deceased in 1803, Ami Argand ranks 12. Before him are Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Franz Xaver Süssmayr, Vittorio Alfieri, Louis I of Etruria, and Louis Claude de Saint-Martin. After him are Xenia of Saint Petersburg, Samuel Adams, Kirill Razumovski, Ercole III d'Este, Duke of Modena, Abdulaziz bin Muhammad Al Saud, and Samuel von Brukenthal.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Ami Argand ranks 145 out of 1,015. Before him are Marina Doria (1935), Jacob Sprenger (1435), Charles Gleyre (1806), Hugo Koblet (1925), Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza (1945), and Théophile Steinlen (1859). After him are Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria (1938), Alexander Agassiz (1835), Jaime, Duke of Madrid (1870), Nicolaus II Bernoulli (1695), Princess Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1867), and Jakob Ammann (1644).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Switzerland

Among physicists born in Switzerland, Ami Argand ranks 7. Before him are Charles Édouard Guillaume (1861), Heinrich Rohrer (1933), K. Alex Müller (1927), Felix Bloch (1905), Auguste Piccard (1884), and Johann Jakob Balmer (1825). After him are Walter H. Schottky (1886), Raoul Pictet (1846), Walther Ritz (1878), Jakob II Bernoulli (1759), Alfred Kleiner (1849), and Georges-Louis Le Sage (1724).

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