PHYSICIST

Daniel Bernoulli

1700 - 1782

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Daniel Bernoulli ( bur-NOO-lee; Swiss Standard German: [ˈdaːni̯eːl bɛrˈnʊli]; 8 February [O.S. 29 January] 1700 – 27 March 1782) was a Swiss mathematician and physicist and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family from Basel. He is particularly remembered for his applications of mathematics to mechanics, especially fluid mechanics, and for his pioneering work in probability and statistics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Daniel Bernoulli has received more than 1,442,983 page views. His biography is available in 80 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 77 in 2019). Daniel Bernoulli is the 29th most popular physicist (down from 27th in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 16th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Dutch Physicist.

Daniel Bernoulli is most famous for his work in fluid mechanics. He is also famous for his contributions to the kinetic theory of gases.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Daniel Bernoulli ranks 29 out of 851. Before him are Christiaan Huygens, Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, James Clerk Maxwell, Edward Teller, Heinrich Hertz, and Hendrik Lorentz. After him are Ibn al-Haytham, Luigi Galvani, Gustav Kirchhoff, Max Born, Andrei Sakharov, and Paul Dirac.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1700, Daniel Bernoulli ranks 1. After him are Baal Shem Tov, Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, Nicolaus Zinzendorf, Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Sophie Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Ewald Georg von Kleist, Johann Christoph Gottsched, Clemens August of Bavaria, Charlotte Aglaé d'Orléans, and Jean-Antoine Nollet. Among people deceased in 1782, Daniel Bernoulli ranks 1. After him are Farinelli, Johann Christian Bach, Anne Bonny, Taksin, Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal, Pietro Metastasio, Jacques de Vaucanson, Sophie of France, Louisa Ulrika of Prussia, Anna Göldi, and Ange-Jacques Gabriel.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Daniel Bernoulli ranks 17 out of 1,646. Before him are Christiaan Huygens (1629), Hugo Grotius (1583), Abel Tasman (1603), Mata Hari (1876), Hendrik Lorentz (1853), and Beatrix of the Netherlands (1938). After him are Pope Adrian VI (1459), Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (1880), Gerard 't Hooft (1946), Pieter Zeeman (1865), M. C. Escher (1898), and Willem Barentsz (1550).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Netherlands

Among physicists born in Netherlands, Daniel Bernoulli ranks 3. Before him are Christiaan Huygens (1629), and Hendrik Lorentz (1853). After him are Gerard 't Hooft (1946), Pieter Zeeman (1865), Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837), Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853), Peter Debye (1884), Frits Zernike (1888), Simon van der Meer (1925), Nicolaas Bloembergen (1920), and Martinus J. G. Veltman (1931).

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