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Claude-Louis Navier

1785 - 1836

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Claude-Louis Navier (born Claude Louis Marie Henri Navier; French: [klod lwi maʁi ɑ̃ʁi navje]; 10 February 1785 – 21 August 1836) was a French Civil engineer, affiliated with the French government, and a physicist who specialized in continuum mechanics. The Navier–Stokes equations refer eponymously to him, with George Gabriel Stokes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Claude-Louis Navier has received more than 271,785 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Claude-Louis Navier is the 251st most popular physicist (down from 237th in 2019), the 1,032nd most popular biography from France (up from 1,088th in 2019) and the 25th most popular French Physicist.

Claude-Louis Navier was a French mathematician and engineer who is most famous for his work in the field of fluid mechanics. He is credited with the Navier-Stokes equations, which are used to describe the motion of fluid substances.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Claude-Louis Navier ranks 251 out of 851. Before him are John Archibald Wheeler, Jim Peebles, Gérard Mourou, Georg Bednorz, Georg von Békésy, and Ivar Giaever. After him are Brian Josephson, Charles Wheatstone, Masatoshi Koshiba, Philip Warren Anderson, David Brewster, and Otto Robert Frisch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1785, Claude-Louis Navier ranks 8. Before him are Mahmud II, Jacob Grimm, Karl Drais, Alessandro Manzoni, Bettina von Arnim, and Lin Zexu. After him are Thomas De Quincey, Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Pierre Louis Dulong, John James Audubon, Jean Charles Athanase Peltier, and Hans Karl von Diebitsch. Among people deceased in 1836, Claude-Louis Navier ranks 12. Before him are Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, William Godwin, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, Davy Crockett, Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier, and Maria Malibran. After him are Nathan Mayer Rothschild, James Mill, Princess Wilhelmine of Baden, Anton Reicha, Christiaan Hendrik Persoon, and Anthony of Saxony.

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In France

Among people born in France, Claude-Louis Navier ranks 1,032 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien (1772), Anne Marie d'Orléans (1669), Samy Naceri (1961), Paul Henri Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant (1852), Hugh of Italy (880), and François Achille Bazaine (1811). After him are Marine Le Pen (1968), Hans-Georg von Friedeburg (1895), Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (1929), Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse (1156), Louise of Lorraine (1553), and Jacques Clément (1567).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Claude-Louis Navier ranks 25. Before him are Albert Fert (1938), Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (1799), Louis Néel (1904), Alain Aspect (1947), Edme Mariotte (1620), and Gérard Mourou (1944). After him are Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1932), Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier (1754), Edmond Becquerel (1820), Antoine César Becquerel (1788), Anne L'Huillier (1958), and Hélène Langevin-Joliot (1927).

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