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Félix Savart

1791 - 1841

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Félix Savart (; French: [savaʁ]; 30 June 1791, Mézières – 16 March 1841, Paris) was a French physicist and mathematician who is primarily known for the Biot–Savart law of electromagnetism, which he discovered together with his colleague Jean-Baptiste Biot. His main interest was in acoustics and the study of vibrating bodies. A particular interest in the violin led him to create an experimental trapezoidal model. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Félix Savart has received more than 100,471 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Félix Savart is the 331st most popular physicist (down from 304th in 2019), the 1,794th most popular biography from France (down from 1,622nd in 2019) and the 36th most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Félix Savart ranks 331 out of 717. Before him are Frank Wilczek, Bruno Pontecorvo, Gaston Planté, Jean Charles Athanase Peltier, Pascual Jordan, and August Kundt. After him are Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, Leopold Infeld, Vladimir Shukhov, George Francis FitzGerald, Moritz von Jacobi, and Manfred von Ardenne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1791, Félix Savart ranks 17. Before him are Francesco Hayez, Eugène Scribe, Franz Grillparzer, István Széchenyi, Minh Mạng, and Friedrich Parrot. After him are Johann Franz Encke, Alexandros Mavrokordatos, Ferdinand Hérold, Anne Lister, Sergey Aksakov, and Louis Visconti. Among people deceased in 1841, Félix Savart ranks 15. Before him are Johan August Arfwedson, Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno, Friedrich Sertürner, Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Minh Mạng, and Friedrich Parrot. After him are Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, Franz Xaver von Baader, Honoré V, Prince of Monaco, Tokugawa Ienari, Countess Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde, and Bertrand Barère.

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In France

Among people born in France, Félix Savart ranks 1,794 out of 6,011. Before him are Jean Dujardin (1972), Marcel Aymé (1902), Guy Roux (1938), Nicolas-Edme Rétif (1734), Paul Virilio (1932), and Fabien Barthez (1971). After him are Alphonse Allais (1854), Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676), Isabelle of France (1225), Renée Simonot (1911), Philippe de Broca (1933), and Pierre-Jules Hetzel (1814).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Félix Savart ranks 36. Before him are Hélène Langevin-Joliot (1927), Edmond Becquerel (1820), Jean-Charles de Borda (1733), Marguerite Perey (1909), Gaston Planté (1834), and Jean Charles Athanase Peltier (1785). After him are John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683), Jean-Antoine Nollet (1700), Henri Pitot (1695), Léon Brillouin (1889), Maurice de Broglie (1875), and Henri Tresca (1814).

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