1799 - 1864
Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (French: [klapɛʁɔ̃]; 26 January 1799 – 28 January 1864) was a French engineer and physicist, one of the founders of thermodynamics. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron has received more than 119,996 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron is the 144th most popular physicist (up from 150th in 2019), the 679th most popular biography from France (down from 621st in 2019) and the 19th most popular French Physicist.
Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron was a French engineer and physicist who is most famous for his work on the thermodynamic properties of gases.
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Among physicists, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron ranks 144 out of 721. Before him are Julius von Mayer, François Englert, Owen Chamberlain, Hans Bethe, Roger Penrose, and Ilya Frank. After him are Frits Zernike, Benjamin Thompson, Murray Gell-Mann, William Shockley, Hannes Alfvén, and Javier Solana.
1814 - 1878
HPI: 73.48
Rank: 138
1932 - Present
HPI: 73.47
Rank: 139
1920 - 2006
HPI: 73.45
Rank: 140
1906 - 2005
HPI: 73.44
Rank: 141
1931 - Present
HPI: 73.40
Rank: 142
1908 - 1990
HPI: 73.38
Rank: 143
1799 - 1864
HPI: 73.35
Rank: 144
1888 - 1966
HPI: 73.22
Rank: 145
1753 - 1814
HPI: 73.18
Rank: 146
1929 - 2019
HPI: 73.03
Rank: 147
1910 - 1989
HPI: 72.94
Rank: 148
1908 - 1995
HPI: 72.90
Rank: 149
1942 - Present
HPI: 72.78
Rank: 150
Among people born in 1799, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron ranks 4. Before him are Honoré de Balzac, Alexander Pushkin, and Oscar I of Sweden. After him are William Lassell, Karl Bryullov, Charles II, Duke of Parma, Gustav, Prince of Vasa, Mary Anning, Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, Fromental Halévy, and Anna Atkins. Among people deceased in 1864, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron ranks 7. Before him are George Boole, Ferdinand Lassalle, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Maximilian II of Bavaria, and Vuk Karadžić. After him are Hong Xiuquan, Cheoljong of Joseon, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, Leo von Klenze, William I of Württemberg, and Louise Marie Thérèse of Artois.
1799 - 1850
HPI: 88.70
Rank: 1
1799 - 1837
HPI: 87.86
Rank: 2
1799 - 1859
HPI: 78.93
Rank: 3
1799 - 1864
HPI: 73.35
Rank: 4
1799 - 1880
HPI: 71.84
Rank: 5
1799 - 1852
HPI: 70.66
Rank: 6
1799 - 1883
HPI: 70.62
Rank: 7
1799 - 1877
HPI: 70.27
Rank: 8
1799 - 1847
HPI: 69.79
Rank: 9
1799 - 1875
HPI: 69.61
Rank: 10
1799 - 1862
HPI: 69.53
Rank: 11
1799 - 1871
HPI: 68.37
Rank: 12
1815 - 1864
HPI: 78.24
Rank: 1
1825 - 1864
HPI: 76.68
Rank: 2
1791 - 1864
HPI: 76.47
Rank: 3
1804 - 1864
HPI: 75.42
Rank: 4
1811 - 1864
HPI: 75.23
Rank: 5
1787 - 1864
HPI: 73.41
Rank: 6
1799 - 1864
HPI: 73.35
Rank: 7
1814 - 1864
HPI: 72.77
Rank: 8
1831 - 1864
HPI: 72.07
Rank: 9
1793 - 1864
HPI: 71.41
Rank: 10
1784 - 1864
HPI: 70.16
Rank: 11
1781 - 1864
HPI: 69.86
Rank: 12
1819 - 1864
HPI: 69.48
Rank: 13
Among people born in France, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron ranks 679 out of 5,234. Before him are Aristide Maillol (1861), Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741), François-André Danican Philidor (1726), Caroline Bonaparte (1782), Éliphas Lévi (1810), and Louis Malle (1932). After him are Claude of France (1547), France Gall (1947), Clotilde (475), Edmond Rostand (1868), Robert Bresson (1901), and Anne of Foix-Candale (1484).
1861 - 1944
HPI: 73.41
Rank: 673
1741 - 1803
HPI: 73.39
Rank: 674
1726 - 1795
HPI: 73.39
Rank: 675
1782 - 1839
HPI: 73.39
Rank: 676
1810 - 1875
HPI: 73.37
Rank: 677
1932 - 1995
HPI: 73.35
Rank: 678
1799 - 1864
HPI: 73.35
Rank: 679
1547 - 1575
HPI: 73.33
Rank: 680
1947 - 2018
HPI: 73.30
Rank: 681
475 - 545
HPI: 73.27
Rank: 682
1868 - 1918
HPI: 73.27
Rank: 683
1901 - 1999
HPI: 73.26
Rank: 684
1484 - 1506
HPI: 73.26
Rank: 685
Among physicists born in France, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron ranks 19. Before him are Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788), François Arago (1786), Albert Fert (1938), Paul Langevin (1872), Alfred Kastler (1902), and Hans Bethe (1906). After him are Jacques Charles (1763), Louis Néel (1904), Claude-Louis Navier (1785), Edmond Becquerel (1820), Antoine César Becquerel (1788), and Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1932).
1788 - 1827
HPI: 74.71
Rank: 13
1786 - 1853
HPI: 74.69
Rank: 14
1938 - Present
HPI: 73.72
Rank: 15
1872 - 1946
HPI: 73.59
Rank: 16
1902 - 1984
HPI: 73.54
Rank: 17
1906 - 2005
HPI: 73.44
Rank: 18
1799 - 1864
HPI: 73.35
Rank: 19
1763 - 1823
HPI: 72.18
Rank: 20
1904 - 2000
HPI: 71.21
Rank: 21
1785 - 1836
HPI: 71.19
Rank: 22
1820 - 1891
HPI: 70.79
Rank: 23
1788 - 1878
HPI: 70.14
Rank: 24
1932 - 2007
HPI: 70.11
Rank: 25