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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 105,865 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Gaston Planté is the 327th most popular physicist (up from 348th in 2019), the 1,721st most popular biography from France (up from 1,908th in 2019) and the 34th most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Gaston Planté ranks 327 out of 717Before him are Christoph Scheiner, John Mauchly, Yakov Zeldovich, James Jeans, Frank Wilczek, and Bruno Pontecorvo. After him are Jean Charles Athanase Peltier, Pascual Jordan, August Kundt, Félix Savart, Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, and Leopold Infeld.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Gaston Planté ranks 23Before him are Jan Neruda, Johann Philipp Reis, Julia Pastrana, Aleksis Kivi, Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska, and Carl Bloch. After him are John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, Viktor Hartmann, Infanta Amalia of Spain, Kondō Isami, Lev Ivanov, and Hetty Green. Among people deceased in 1889, Gaston Planté ranks 26Before him are Robert Browning, Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, Ion Creangă, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, John Ericsson, and Ignacy Domeyko. After him are Princess Eugénie of Sweden, Viktor Bunyakovsky, Jules Dupré, Maria Mitchell, Elvira Madigan, and Ybyrai Altynsarin.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gaston Planté ranks 1,721 out of 6,011Before him are Hugh of Cluny (1024), Germaine Dulac (1882), John Eudes (1601), William III, Duke of Aquitaine (910), Caesarius of Arles (470), and Charles of Valois, Duke of Berry (1446). After him are Beatrice of Provence (1229), La Goulue (1866), Jean-Marie Balestre (1921), Théo Sarapo (1936), Jules de Goncourt (1830), and Jean-Pierre Rampal (1922).

Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Gaston Planté ranks 34Before him are Paul-Jacques Curie (1855), Pierre Louis Dulong (1785), Hélène Langevin-Joliot (1927), Edmond Becquerel (1820), Jean-Charles de Borda (1733), and Marguerite Perey (1909). After him are Jean Charles Athanase Peltier (1785), Félix Savart (1791), John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683), Jean-Antoine Nollet (1700), Henri Pitot (1695), and Léon Brillouin (1889).