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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 47,070 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Gaspard de Prony is the 434th most popular physicist (down from 391st in 2019), the 2,757th most popular biography from France (down from 2,365th in 2019) and the 50th most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Gaspard de Prony ranks 434 out of 717. Before him are Evgeny Lifshitz, Alain Aspect, Sameera Moussa, Marie Alfred Cornu, John Dollond, and Gene Amdahl. After him are Saul Perlmutter, Giovanni Battista Amici, Emil Wiechert, Bruno Rossi, Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, and Eugen Goldstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1755, Gaspard de Prony ranks 25. Before him are Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bülow, Quatremère de Quincy, Bertrand Barère, Infante Antonio Pascual of Spain, and John Flaxman. After him are Nicolas-Jacques Conté, Anacharsis Cloots, John Marshall, Princess Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt, Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, and Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian. Among people deceased in 1839, Gaspard de Prony ranks 22. Before him are Joseph Anton Koch, Andrew Dũng-Lạc, Aloysia Weber, Mikhail Speransky, William Murdoch, and Lady Hester Stanhope. After him are Duchess Therese of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths, Dorothea von Schlegel, Denis Davydov, Hugues-Bernard Maret, duc de Bassano, and Maurice de Guérin.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gaspard de Prony ranks 2,757 out of 6,011. Before him are Jean Lorrain (1855), François-Xavier Ortoli (1925), Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle (1684), John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset (1373), Joseph Paul-Boncour (1873), and Marc Riboud (1923). After him are Jules Dalou (1838), Charles-Michel de l'Épée (1712), Gabriel Hanot (1889), Princess Françoise of Orléans (1902), Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (1762), and Oscar Cullmann (1902).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Gaspard de Prony ranks 50. Before him are Louis Poinsot (1777), Louis Paul Cailletet (1832), Auguste Bravais (1811), Jules Jamin (1818), Alain Aspect (1947), and Marie Alfred Cornu (1841). After him are Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille (1797), Jacques Babinet (1794), Jules Antoine Lissajous (1822), Claude Pouillet (1790), Pierre Victor Auger (1899), and Pierre Weiss (1865).

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