PHYSICIST

Gaston Planté

1834 - 1889

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Gaston Planté (French pronunciation: [ʁɛmɔ̃ lwi ɡastɔ̃ plɑ̃te]; 22 April 1834 – 21 May 1889) was a French physicist who invented the lead–acid battery in 1859. This type battery was developed as the first rechargeable electric battery marketed for commercial use and it is widely used in automobiles. Planté was born on 22 April 1834 in Orthez, France. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gaston Planté has received more than 113,062 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Gaston Planté is the 361st most popular physicist (down from 327th in 2019), the 1,932nd most popular biography from France (down from 1,715th in 2019) and the 41st most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Gaston Planté ranks 361 out of 851. Before him are Auguste Bravais, Georg Wilhelm Richmann, George Uhlenbeck, George Francis FitzGerald, Walter H. Schottky, and Manfred von Ardenne. After him are Charles Fabry, Abram Ioffe, Louis Slotin, Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, Paul Drude, and Maurice de Broglie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Gaston Planté ranks 25. Before him are James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Kondō Isami, Kawakami Gensai, John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska, and Carl Bloch. After him are William Chester Minor, Heinrich von Treitschke, Gustav Nachtigal, Viktor Hartmann, Lev Ivanov, and John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury. Among people deceased in 1889, Gaston Planté ranks 27. Before him are Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, John Ericsson, Ignacy Domeyko, and Jules Dupré. After him are Şevkefza Kadın, Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel, Elvira Madigan, Viktor Bunyakovsky, Ion Creangă, and Princess Eugénie of Sweden.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gaston Planté ranks 1,932 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-Pierre Beltoise (1937), Henriette of Cleves (1542), Balthasar Gérard (1557), Princess Isabelle of Orléans (1878), Pierre Werner (1913), and Ravachol (1859). After him are Jean Sorel (1934), François-Édouard Picot (1786), Chilperic of Aquitaine (600), Nicolas Lancret (1690), Jules Romains (1885), and Paul Durand-Ruel (1831).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Gaston Planté ranks 41. Before him are Pierre Louis Dulong (1785), John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683), Jean Charles Athanase Peltier (1785), Jean-Charles de Borda (1733), Marguerite Perey (1909), and Auguste Bravais (1811). After him are Charles Fabry (1867), Maurice de Broglie (1875), Jules Antoine Lissajous (1822), Jean-Antoine Nollet (1700), Louis Poinsot (1777), and Léon Brillouin (1889).

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