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Arthur Morin

1795 - 1880

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Arthur Jules Morin (19 October 1795 – 7 February 1880) was a French physicist. He conducted experiments in mechanics and invented the Morin dynamometer. He introduced the term coefficient of friction and demonstrated its utility.In 1850, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arthur Morin has received more than 21,121 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Arthur Morin is the 169th most popular engineer (up from 189th in 2019), the 2,971st most popular biography from France (up from 2,978th in 2019) and the 27th most popular French Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Arthur Morin ranks 169 out of 323Before him are Antoine de Chézy, Anton Flettner, Louis Charles Breguet, Émile Levassor, Rory Byrne, and Kelly Johnson. After him are Béla Barényi, Alphonse Pénaud, Robert Maillart, Pierre-Paul Riquet, Alfred Neubauer, and Henryk Dembiński.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1795, Arthur Morin ranks 35Before him are Charles Barry, Anton Schindler, Dingane kaSenzangakhona, Policarpa Salavarrieta, Thomas Arnold, and Ghazi Muhammad. After him are James Barry, Karl Eichwald, Carl Anton von Meyer, James Braid, Kondraty Ryleyev, and Joseph Bienaimé Caventou. Among people deceased in 1880, Arthur Morin ranks 31Before him are Jules Favre, Raden Saleh, Robert Fortune, Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, Jules Antoine Lissajous, and Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias. After him are Alphonse Pénaud, Karl Friedrich Lessing, Peter Wilhelm Lund, August Karl von Goeben, Lucretia Mott, and Edwin Drake.

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In France

Among people born in France, Arthur Morin ranks 2,971 out of 6,011Before him are Jean Laplanche (1924), Lupus Servatus (805), Guillaume Depardieu (1971), Augustin Pajou (1730), Nicolas Baudin (1754), and Suzy Delair (1917). After him are Geneviève Page (1927), Bertha of Kent (550), Anne Vallayer-Coster (1744), Joseph Vendryes (1875), Francis Ponge (1899), and Claude Gillot (1673).

Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Arthur Morin ranks 27Before him are Léon Charles Thévenin (1857), Gérard Larrousse (1940), Pierre-Émile Martin (1824), Antoine de Chézy (1718), Louis Charles Breguet (1880), and Émile Levassor (1843). After him are Alphonse Pénaud (1850), Pierre-Paul Riquet (1609), Pierre Charles L'Enfant (1754), Michel Chevalier (1806), Louis Dollo (1857), and Evgeny Paton (1870).