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Georges-Louis Le Sage

1724 - 1803

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Georges-Louis Le Sage (French: [lə saʒ]; 13 June 1724 – 9 November 1803) was a Genevan physicist and is most known for his theory of gravitation, for his invention of an electric telegraph and his anticipation of the kinetic theory of gases. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georges-Louis Le Sage has received more than 55,206 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Georges-Louis Le Sage is the 590th most popular physicist, the 420th most popular biography from Switzerland and the 13th most popular Swiss Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Georges-Louis Le Sage ranks 590 out of 717. Before him are Alexander Markovich Polyakov, Ted Fujita, Bill Nye, John D. Barrow, John Robison, and Willem Hendrik Keesom. After him are Giovanni Giorgi, Henry Augustus Rowland, John Lennard-Jones, Alvin M. Weinberg, Joan Feynman, and Michael Fisher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1724, Georges-Louis Le Sage ranks 29. Before him are Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, Dai Zhen, Johann Julius Walbaum, Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, Anton Friedrich Büsching, and Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester. After him is Jane Colden. Among people deceased in 1803, Georges-Louis Le Sage ranks 34. Before him are Anders Chydenius, Pōmare I, Georg I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Christoph Bartholomäus Anton Migazzi, Peter Woulfe, and Jean François de Saint-Lambert. After him are George Bass, Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, François Marie Daudin, Nikolay Lvov, Lemuel Francis Abbott, and Nizam Ali Khan, Asaf Jah II.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Georges-Louis Le Sage ranks 420 out of 876. Before him are Alexander Frei (1979), Fritz Schär (1926), Corina Casanova (1956), Pierre Aubert (1927), Thomas Bickel (1963), and Conrad Grebel (1498). After him are Gottfried Dienst (1919), Arthur Cohn (1927), Justus Dahinden (1925), Johannes Müller Argoviensis (1828), Charles Champaud (1865), and Johann David Wyss (1743).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Switzerland

Among physicists born in Switzerland, Georges-Louis Le Sage ranks 13. Before him are Ami Argand (1750), Walter H. Schottky (1886), Walther Ritz (1878), Raoul Pictet (1846), Jakob II Bernoulli (1759), and Alfred Kleiner (1849). After him are Paul Scherrer (1890) and Ernst Stueckelberg (1905).

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