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Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis

1792 - 1843

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Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (French: [ɡaspaʁ ɡystav də kɔʁjɔlis]; 21 May 1792 – 19 September 1843) was a French mathematician, mechanical engineer and scientist. He is best known for his work on the supplementary forces that are detected in a rotating frame of reference, leading to the Coriolis effect. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis has received more than 155,264 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis is the 70th most popular physicist (down from 65th in 2019), the 315th most popular biography from France (up from 339th in 2019) and the 8th most popular French Physicist.

Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis was a French mathematician who is most famous for his work on the Coriolis effect.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis ranks 70 out of 851. Before him are J. Hans D. Jensen, Eugene Wigner, Johannes Stark, Rudolf Clausius, Otto von Guericke, and Lev Landau. After him are Carl David Anderson, Georges Lemaître, James Chadwick, Lawrence Bragg, Ernest Lawrence, and Louis de Broglie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1792, Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis ranks 3. Before him are Gioachino Rossini, and Pope Pius IX. After him are William II of the Netherlands, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Nikolai Lobachevsky, John Herschel, Karl Ernst von Baer, Caroline Augusta of Bavaria, Alexander Ypsilantis, Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, and William, Duke of Nassau. Among people deceased in 1843, Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis ranks 3. Before him are Friedrich Hölderlin, and William I of the Netherlands. After him are Noah Webster, Samuel Hahnemann, Princess Louise Auguste of Denmark, Theodoros Kolokotronis, Joseph Lanner, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Marie Anne Lenormand, Sequoyah, and Peter Wittgenstein.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis ranks 315 out of 6,770. Before him are William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825), Constantine II (316), Chlothar I (498), Raymond Poincaré (1860), Claude Lorrain (1600), and Georges-Eugène Haussmann (1809). After him are Georges Clemenceau (1841), Jean Gabin (1904), Alphonse Daudet (1840), Diane de Poitiers (1499), Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France (1781), and Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis ranks 8. Before him are Henri Becquerel (1852), André-Marie Ampère (1775), Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736), Henry Cavendish (1731), Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900), and Léon Foucault (1819). After him are Louis de Broglie (1892), Hans Bethe (1906), Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870), François Arago (1786), Alfred Kastler (1902), and Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774).

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