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PHYSICIST

Ferdinand Monoyer

1836 - 1912

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Ferdinand Monoyer (9 May 1836 – 11 July 1912) was a French ophthalmologist, known for introducing the dioptre in 1872. He invented the Monoyer chart, used to test visual acuity. He inserted his name in the random letters of the chart. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ferdinand Monoyer has received more than 906,839 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Ferdinand Monoyer is the 552nd most popular physicist (down from 529th in 2019), the 3,677th most popular biography from France (down from 3,258th in 2019) and the 61st most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Ferdinand Monoyer ranks 552 out of 717. Before him are Louis-François-Clement Breguet, Giuseppe Occhialini, William D. Coolidge, Charles Kittel, Bert Bolin, and Étienne-Gaspard Robert. After him are Abraham Alikhanov, David Deutsch, Carl August von Steinheil, Théophile de Donder, Wander Johannes de Haas, and Nicholas Kurti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1836, Ferdinand Monoyer ranks 57. Before him are Edward Poynter, Walery Antoni Wróblewski, Ernst von Bergmann, Norman Lockyer, Emil Hartmann, and Bret Harte. After him are Robert Swinhoe, Michał Elwiro Andriolli, Adolf Schwarz, Isabella Beeton, Jay Gould, and W. S. Gilbert. Among people deceased in 1912, Ferdinand Monoyer ranks 82. Before him are Mykola Pymonenko, Tony Robert-Fleury, Andrew Lang, Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo, Antonio Pacinotti, and Lawrence Oates. After him are Daniel Burnham, Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife, Toyohara Chikanobu, Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak, William Wilson, and Arthur MacArthur Jr..

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In France

Among people born in France, Ferdinand Monoyer ranks 3,677 out of 6,011. Before him are Simonne Mathieu (1908), Marie-Eugénie de Jésus (1817), Princess Marie of Denmark (1976), André Parrot (1901), Eugène Lanti (1879), and Edmond Aman-Jean (1858). After him are Odette Bancilhon (1908), Nicole Courcel (1931), Andréa Parisy (1935), Frédéric Dard (1921), Alphonse Legros (1837), and Robert Charpentier (1916).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Ferdinand Monoyer ranks 61. Before him are Pierre Victor Auger (1899), Pierre Weiss (1865), Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700), Alexis Thérèse Petit (1791), Gustave Trouvé (1839), and Louis-François-Clement Breguet (1804). After him are Carl August von Steinheil (1801), Alfred Perot (1863), Charles Fabry (1867), Hubert Curien (1924), and Jacques Friedel (1921).

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