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Edme Mariotte

1620 - 1684

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Edme Mariotte (; French: [ɛdmə maʁjɔt]; c. 1620 – 12 May 1684) was a French physicist and priest (abbé). He is particularly well known for formulating Boyle's law independently of Robert Boyle. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edme Mariotte has received more than 107,062 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Edme Mariotte is the 229th most popular physicist (down from 180th in 2019), the 954th most popular biography from France (down from 833rd in 2019) and the 23rd most popular French Physicist.

Edme Mariotte is most famous for his work on the caloric theory of heat.

Memorability Metrics

  • 110k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Edme Mariotte has had the most page views in the with 17,250 views, followed by English (17,132), and Russian (5,455). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Irish (67.74%), Swedish (58.71%), and Catalan (56.26%)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Edme Mariotte ranks 229 out of 851. Before him are Murray Gell-Mann, Sheldon Lee Glashow, Roy J. Glauber, Frederick Reines, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, and Theodor W. Hänsch. After him are Makoto Kobayashi, Burton Richter, Joseph Plateau, Serge Haroche, Horst Ludwig Störmer, and William Shockley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1620, Edme Mariotte ranks 3. Before him are Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, and Ninon de l'Enclos. After him are Avvakum, Aelbert Cuyp, Pierre Puget, Jean Picard, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Miklós Zrínyi, Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars, John Graunt, and François Bernier. Among people deceased in 1684, Edme Mariotte ranks 5. Before him are Pierre Corneille, Pieter de Hooch, Elena Cornaro Piscopia, and Nicola Amati. After him are Jan Davidsz. de Heem, Anne Gonzaga, Karl Eusebius, Prince of Liechtenstein, Josefa de Óbidos, Antoine Gombaud, Duchess Marie Elisabeth of Saxony, and Caspar Netscher.

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In France

Among people born in France, Edme Mariotte ranks 954 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763), Horace Vernet (1789), Paul Vidal de La Blache (1845), Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans (1709), Robert I, Duke of Burgundy (1011), and Guillaume de Nogaret (1260). After him are Antoine Bourdelle (1861), Marie Louise Gonzaga (1611), Hector Guimard (1867), Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier (1627), Jean-Pierre Papin (1963), and Childebert III (678).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Edme Mariotte ranks 23. Before him are Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788), Jacques Charles (1763), Albert Fert (1938), Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (1799), Louis Néel (1904), and Alain Aspect (1947). After him are Gérard Mourou (1944), Claude-Louis Navier (1785), Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1932), Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier (1754), Edmond Becquerel (1820), and Antoine César Becquerel (1788).

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