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Auguste Bravais

1811 - 1863

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Auguste Bravais (French pronunciation: [oɡyst bʁavɛ]; 23 August 1811, Annonay, Ardèche – 30 March 1863, Le Chesnay, France) was a French physicist known for his work in crystallography, the conception of Bravais lattices, and the formulation of Bravais law. Bravais also studied magnetism, the northern lights, meteorology, geobotany, phyllotaxis, astronomy, statistics and hydrography. He studied at the Collège Stanislas in Paris before joining the École Polytechnique in 1829, where he was a classmate of groundbreaking mathematician Évariste Galois, whom Bravais actually beat in a scholastic mathematics competition. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Auguste Bravais has received more than 93,911 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Auguste Bravais is the 355th most popular physicist (up from 411th in 2019), the 1,868th most popular biography from France (up from 2,599th in 2019) and the 40th most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Auguste Bravais ranks 355 out of 851. Before him are Marguerite Perey, Moritz von Jacobi, Stephen Hales, Yakov Zeldovich, Heinrich Geißler, and Galileo Ferraris. After him are Georg Wilhelm Richmann, George Uhlenbeck, George Francis FitzGerald, Walter H. Schottky, Manfred von Ardenne, and Gaston Planté.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1811, Auguste Bravais ranks 23. Before him are Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern, Zeng Guofan, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Jón Sigurðsson, Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, and Jules Dupré. After him are Princess Louise Amelie of Baden, Ferdinand Hiller, Carlo Matteucci, Kurmanjan Datka, Édouard René de Laboulaye, and Giulia Grisi. Among people deceased in 1863, Auguste Bravais ranks 16. Before him are Jakob Steiner, Stonewall Jackson, Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel, Christian Friedrich Hebbel, Sam Houston, and Natalia Pushkina. After him are Radama II, Eilhard Mitscherlich, Dost Mohammad Khan, Princess Maria Augusta of Saxony, Archduke Maximilian of Austria-Este, and Giovanni Battista Amici.

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In France

Among people born in France, Auguste Bravais ranks 1,868 out of 6,770. Before him are Amandus (600), Robert Desnos (1900), William V, Duke of Aquitaine (969), Catherine Spaak (1945), Maurice Blondel (1861), and Jean-Marie Balestre (1921). After him are Jean-Paul Laurens (1838), Philip I, Count of Savoy (1207), Jean Borotra (1898), Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play (1806), Marie de Gournay (1565), and Florestan I, Prince of Monaco (1785).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Auguste Bravais ranks 40. Before him are Félix Savart (1791), Pierre Louis Dulong (1785), John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683), Jean Charles Athanase Peltier (1785), Jean-Charles de Borda (1733), and Marguerite Perey (1909). After him are Gaston Planté (1834), Charles Fabry (1867), Maurice de Broglie (1875), Jules Antoine Lissajous (1822), Jean-Antoine Nollet (1700), and Louis Poinsot (1777).

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