PHYSICIST

Charles Fabry

1867 - 1945

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Maurice Paul Auguste Charles Fabry (French: [fabʁi]; 11 June 1867 – 11 December 1945) was a French physicist working on optics. Together with Alfred Pérot he invented the Fabry–Pérot interferometer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Fabry has received more than 82,935 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Charles Fabry is the 362nd most popular physicist (up from 624th in 2019), the 1,945th most popular biography from France (up from 4,052nd in 2019) and the 42nd most popular French Physicist.

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  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Charles Fabries by language

Over the past year Charles Fabry has had the most page views in the with 7,509 views, followed by French (2,793), and Spanish (2,499). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Slovak (81.84%), Finnish (67.15%), and Swahili (66.32%)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Charles Fabry ranks 362 out of 851. Before him are Georg Wilhelm Richmann, George Uhlenbeck, George Francis FitzGerald, Walter H. Schottky, Manfred von Ardenne, and Gaston Planté. After him are Abram Ioffe, Louis Slotin, Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, Paul Drude, Maurice de Broglie, and Jules Antoine Lissajous.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Charles Fabry ranks 52. Before him are Sister Nivedita, Josep Puig i Cadafalch, Hans Driesch, Leo Jogiches, Kristian Birkeland, and Mikhail Eisenstein. After him are Marcel Schwob, Carl Laemmle, Hiranuma Kiichirō, Adam Stefan Sapieha, Elvira Madigan, and Masaoka Shiki. Among people deceased in 1945, Charles Fabry ranks 130. Before him are Albrecht Penck, Ernst-Robert Grawitz, Paul Pelliot, Kitaro Nishida, Constanze Manziarly, and Hajime Sugiyama. After him are Alexander Siloti, Otto Kittel, Ignacio Zuloaga, Walther Hewel, Fritz Freitag, and Julius Dorpmüller.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Fabry ranks 1,945 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis-François de Boufflers (1644), Théophile-Jules Pelouze (1807), Jules Brunet (1838), Henri de Régnier (1864), Jean-Jacques Ampère (1800), and François Pierre La Varenne (1618). After him are Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes (1721), François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy (1644), Marcel Schwob (1867), Leslie Caron (1931), Marc Augé (1935), and Henry of Flanders (1174).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Charles Fabry ranks 42. Before him are John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683), Jean Charles Athanase Peltier (1785), Jean-Charles de Borda (1733), Marguerite Perey (1909), Auguste Bravais (1811), and Gaston Planté (1834). After him are Maurice de Broglie (1875), Jules Antoine Lissajous (1822), Jean-Antoine Nollet (1700), Louis Poinsot (1777), Léon Brillouin (1889), and Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval (1851).

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