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Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

1736 - 1806

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Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (, KOO-lom, -⁠lohm, koo-LOM, -⁠LOHM; French: [kulɔ̃]; 14 June 1736 – 23 August 1806) was a French officer, engineer, and physicist. He is best known as the eponymous discoverer of what is now called Coulomb's law, the description of the electrostatic force of attraction and repulsion. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles-Augustin de Coulomb has received more than 833,024 page views. His biography is available in 86 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 82 in 2019). Charles-Augustin de Coulomb is the 24th most popular physicist (up from 25th in 2019), the 90th most popular biography from France (up from 95th in 2019) and the 4th most popular French Physicist.

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb is most famous for his law of electrostatics. This law states that the magnitude of the electric force between two point charges is proportional to the product of the charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Charles-Augustin de Coulomb ranks 24 out of 851. Before him are Henri Becquerel, Enrico Fermi, André-Marie Ampère, Erwin Schrödinger, Georg Ohm, and Christiaan Huygens. After him are James Clerk Maxwell, Edward Teller, Heinrich Hertz, Hendrik Lorentz, Daniel Bernoulli, and Ibn al-Haytham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1736, Charles-Augustin de Coulomb ranks 2. Before him is James Watt. After him are Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Rama I, Jean Sylvain Bailly, James Macpherson, Claude Nicolas Ledoux, Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Rudolf Erich Raspe, Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé, Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt, and Franz Xaver Messerschmidt. Among people deceased in 1806, Charles-Augustin de Coulomb ranks 1. After him are Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Charles-Henri Sanson, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Utamaro, William V, Prince of Orange, William Pitt the Younger, Michael Haydn, Carlo Gozzi, Ferdinand Karl, Archduke of Austria-Este, Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles-Augustin de Coulomb ranks 90 out of 6,770. Before him are Pierre de Coubertin (1863), Jacques Chirac (1932), Louis IX of France (1214), Pope Urban II (1042), Gustave Courbet (1819), and Irène Joliot-Curie (1897). After him are Michel de Montaigne (1533), Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749), George Sand (1804), Marquis de Sade (1740), Caracalla (188), and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Charles-Augustin de Coulomb ranks 4. Before him are Pierre Curie (1859), Henri Becquerel (1852), and André-Marie Ampère (1775). After him are Henry Cavendish (1731), Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900), Léon Foucault (1819), Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (1792), Louis de Broglie (1892), Hans Bethe (1906), Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870), and François Arago (1786).

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