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Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron

1799 - 1864

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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 150,386 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron is the 161st most popular physicist (down from 135th in 2019), the 672nd most popular biography from France (down from 631st in 2019) and the 20th 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

Among physicists, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron ranks 161 out of 851. Before him are Arthur Compton, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Hugh Everett III, Henry Moseley, Nicolaas Bloembergen, and Klaus Fuchs. After him are Louis Néel, Yang Chen-Ning, Kai Siegbahn, Zhores Alferov, Igor Kurchatov, and Gerd Binnig.

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Contemporaries

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 Mary Anning, William Lassell, Gustav, Prince of Vasa, Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, Karl Bryullov, Charles II, Duke of Parma, Fromental Halévy, and Anna Atkins. Among people deceased in 1864, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron ranks 9. Before him are Maximilian II of Bavaria, Cheoljong of Joseon, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Vuk Karadžić, Hong Xiuquan, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. After him are William I of Württemberg, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, Leo von Klenze, Konstanty Kalinowski, Louise Marie Thérèse of Artois, and Princess Charlotte of Denmark.

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In France

Among people born in France, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron ranks 672 out of 6,770. Before him are Nicolas Fouquet (1615), Édouard Lalo (1823), Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus (-90), Margaret of Burgundy, Queen of France (1290), Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (1528), and Roger Guillemin (1924). After him are Pope Stephen IX (1020), Jean Jaurès (1859), Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698), Gaston, Duke of Orléans (1608), Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans (1676), and Ninon de l'Enclos (1620).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron ranks 20. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774), Hippolyte Fizeau (1819), Paul Langevin (1872), Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788), Jacques Charles (1763), and Albert Fert (1938). After him are Louis Néel (1904), Alain Aspect (1947), Edme Mariotte (1620), Gérard Mourou (1944), Claude-Louis Navier (1785), and Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1932).

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