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Claude Pouillet

1790 - 1868

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Claude Servais Mathias Pouillet (16 February 1790 – 14 June 1868) was a French physicist and a professor of physics at the Sorbonne and member of the French Academy of Sciences (elected 1837). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Claude Pouillet has received more than 57,819 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Claude Pouillet is the 501st most popular physicist (down from 473rd in 2019), the 3,269th most popular biography from France (down from 3,086th in 2019) and the 58th most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Claude Pouillet ranks 501 out of 851. Before him are Friedrich Kohlrausch, Raoul Pictet, Walter Heitler, Ira Sprague Bowen, Walther Ritz, and Richard Mollier. After him are Théophile de Donder, Jakob II Bernoulli, Edwin H. Land, Gene Amdahl, Giovanni Poleni, and Gustave Trouvé.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1790, Claude Pouillet ranks 28. Before him are John Cockerill, Karol Lipiński, William Smith, Manuel Blanco Encalada, Johann Jakob Heckel, and James Pradier. After him are Nassau William Senior, Ferenc Kölcsey, Simon von Stampfer, Ferdinand Raimund, Sergei Petrovich Trubetskoy, and Ghezo. Among people deceased in 1868, Claude Pouillet ranks 37. Before him are Venancio Flores, Wilhelm Griesinger, Moritz Hauptmann, Dmitry Pisarev, Peter Julian Eymard, and Kit Carson. After him are Giuseppe Abbati, Emanuel Leutze, Ramón María Narváez, 1st Duke of Valencia, George Arnott Walker-Arnott, Adolphe d'Archiac, and John Crawfurd.

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In France

Among people born in France, Claude Pouillet ranks 3,269 out of 6,770. Before him are Johnny Servoz-Gavin (1942), Adrien Proust (1834), Guillaume Depardieu (1971), Michel Vautrot (1945), Robert Cambert (1628), and Étienne Jodelle (1532). After him are Jean Rollin (1938), Louis, Duke of Guyenne (1397), Victor Loret (1859), René Daumal (1908), Georges Franju (1912), and Tristan Bernard (1866).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Claude Pouillet ranks 58. Before him are Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille (1797), Jules Jamin (1818), Pierre Victor Auger (1899), Gaspard de Prony (1755), Marie Alfred Cornu (1841), and Jacques Babinet (1794). After him are Gustave Trouvé (1839), Alfred Perot (1863), Pierre Weiss (1865), Carl August von Steinheil (1801), Alexis Thérèse Petit (1791), and Jean Becquerel (1878).

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