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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 60,377 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Georges-Louis Le Sage is the 624th most popular physicist (down from 590th in 2019), the 477th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 418th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Swiss Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Georges-Louis Le Sage ranks 624 out of 851. Before him are Grote Reber, Walther Müller, Brian Greene, John Lennard-Jones, Lawrence M. Krauss, and Sumio Iijima. After him are Norris Bradbury, Michael Green, Antonius van den Broek, Leo Kadanoff, Walter Kaufmann, and Giovanni Giorgi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1724, Georges-Louis Le Sage ranks 32. Before him are William, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe, Ji Yun, 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 35. Before him are Prince Frederick Adolf, Duke of Östergötland, Jean François de Saint-Lambert, Christoph Bartholomäus Anton Migazzi, Georg I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, George Bass, and Peter Woulfe. After him are François Marie Daudin, Lemuel Francis Abbott, Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, Nikolay Lvov, Peter Ascanius, and Robert Emmet.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Georges-Louis Le Sage ranks 477 out of 1,015. Before him are Carlo Clerici (1929), Arnold Koller (1933), Kurt Furgler (1924), Martin Suter (1948), Élisabeth Baume-Schneider (1963), and Marguerite Bays (1815). After him are Johann Amman (1707), Urs Fischer (1966), Lionel Dunsterville (1865), Vreni Schneider (1964), Alex Zülle (1968), and Kaspar Villiger (1941).

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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), Raoul Pictet (1846), Walther Ritz (1878), Jakob II Bernoulli (1759), and Alfred Kleiner (1849). After him are Paul Scherrer (1890), and Ernst Stueckelberg (1905).

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