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Benoît Fourneyron

1802 - 1867

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Benoît Fourneyron (31 October 1802 – 31 July 1867) was a French engineer, born in Saint-Étienne, Loire. Fourneyron made significant contributions to the development of water turbines. Benoît Fourneyron was educated at the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne, a nearby engineering school that had recently opened. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benoît Fourneyron has received more than 47,328 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Benoît Fourneyron is the 209th most popular engineer (up from 214th in 2019), the 3,503rd most popular biography from France (down from 3,462nd in 2019) and the 35th most popular French Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Benoît Fourneyron ranks 209 out of 389. Before him are Bassel al-Assad, Mikhail Koshkin, Alexey Sudayev, Arthur Morin, Nikolay Makarov, and Semyon Lavochkin. After him are François Hennebique, Agustín de Betancourt, Émile Lemoine, Louis Dollo, Yuri Artsutanov, and André Waterkeyn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, Benoît Fourneyron ranks 39. Before him are Paul-Émile Botta, Niccolò Tommaseo, Cesare Pugni, Princess Emma of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, Prince Franz de Paula of Liechtenstein, and Louis Niedermeyer. After him are Adolphe d'Archiac, Edwin Landseer, Adolphe Niel, August Friedrich Pott, Ion Heliade Rădulescu, and Duchess Elisabeth Alexandrine of Württemberg. Among people deceased in 1867, Benoît Fourneyron ranks 42. Before him are Jacques Ignace Hittorff, Simon Sechter, Ramón Castilla, Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac, Ignatius Brianchaninov, and Georgi Sava Rakovski. After him are Alexander Petrov, August Böckh, Santiago Derqui, Artur Grottger, Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński, and Karl Georg Christian von Staudt.

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In France

Among people born in France, Benoît Fourneyron ranks 3,503 out of 6,770. Before him are Élisabeth Marguerite d'Orléans (1646), Blondel de Nesle (1155), Mary of Burgundy, Duchess of Cleves (1393), Ismaël Bullialdus (1605), Catherine Colonna (1956), and Princess Marina Petrovna of Russia (1892). After him are François Hennebique (1842), Joanni Perronet (1877), Christophe Dugarry (1972), François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie (1671), Pierre Nicole (1625), and Bernard de Jussieu (1699).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Benoît Fourneyron ranks 35. Before him are Jorge Chávez (1887), Pierre Charles L'Enfant (1754), Émile Levassor (1843), Alphonse Pénaud (1850), Evgeny Paton (1870), and Arthur Morin (1795). After him are François Hennebique (1842), Émile Lemoine (1840), Louis Dollo (1857), Eugène Belgrand (1810), Léon Serpollet (1858), and Charles Renard (1847).

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