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Gaspard de Prony

1755 - 1839

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Baron Gaspard Clair François Marie Riche de Prony (22 July 1755 – 29 July 1839) was a French mathematician and engineer, who worked on hydraulics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gaspard de Prony has received more than 50,951 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Gaspard de Prony is the 465th most popular physicist (down from 434th in 2019), the 2,885th most popular biography from France (down from 2,748th in 2019) and the 55th most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Gaspard de Prony ranks 465 out of 851. Before him are Rashid Sunyaev, Giovanni Aldini, Christian Mayer, Eugen Goldstein, Vikram Sarabhai, and Pierre Victor Auger. After him are Evgeny Lifshitz, Yuval Ne'eman, Marie Alfred Cornu, Dennis W. Sciama, John Kerr, and Jacques Babinet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1755, Gaspard de Prony ranks 27. Before him are Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, Quatremère de Quincy, Infante Antonio Pascual of Spain, John Flaxman, John Marshall, and Alemdar Mustafa Pasha. After him are Nicolas-Jacques Conté, Jean-Nicolas Corvisart, Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, Gilbert Stuart, Fausto Elhuyar, and Anacharsis Cloots. Among people deceased in 1839, Gaspard de Prony ranks 22. Before him are Ferdinando Paer, Mikhail Speransky, Adolphe Nourrit, Andrew Dũng-Lạc, Joseph Anton Koch, and Dorothea von Schlegel. After him are Aloysia Weber, Lady Hester Stanhope, Denis Davydov, Duchess Therese of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Hugues-Bernard Maret, duc de Bassano, and Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gaspard de Prony ranks 2,885 out of 6,770. Before him are Laurent de La Hyre (1606), Thomas Bérard (1300), Louis-Michel le Peletier, marquis de Saint-Fargeau (1760), Antonin Magne (1904), Abraham Duquesne (1610), and Anne Vallayer-Coster (1744). After him are Henri Alekan (1909), Eugène Schneider (1805), Peter II, Duke of Brittany (1418), Georges Mathieu (1921), Alan IV, Duke of Brittany (1060), and Jules Guesde (1845).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Gaspard de Prony ranks 55. Before him are Henri Tresca (1814), Louis Paul Cailletet (1832), Louis-François-Clement Breguet (1804), Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille (1797), Jules Jamin (1818), and Pierre Victor Auger (1899). After him are Marie Alfred Cornu (1841), Jacques Babinet (1794), Claude Pouillet (1790), Gustave Trouvé (1839), Alfred Perot (1863), and Pierre Weiss (1865).

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