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Guillaume Amontons

1663 - 1705

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Guillaume Amontons (31 August 1663 – 11 October 1705) was a French scientific instrument inventor and physicist. He was one of the pioneers in studying the problem of friction, which is the resistance to motion when bodies make contact. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Guillaume Amontons has received more than 187,796 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Guillaume Amontons is the 170th most popular inventor (down from 161st in 2019), the 2,180th most popular biography from France (down from 2,034th in 2019) and the 24th most popular French Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Guillaume Amontons ranks 170 out of 426. Before him are Angelo Moriondo, Lucien Olivier, Siegfried Marcus, Édouard Branly, Elihu Thomson, and Lagâri Hasan Çelebi. After him are Johann Nepomuk Maelzel, Reginald Fessenden, Charles Cros, Matthew Boulton, Friedrich Zander, and Joseph Monier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1663, Guillaume Amontons ranks 5. Before him are Prince Eugene of Savoy, Thomas Newcomen, Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, and Árni Magnússon. After him are August Hermann Francke, Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, Lobsang Yeshe, 5th Panchen Lama, Luca Carlevarijs, Cotton Mather, and Agafya Grushetskaya. Among people deceased in 1705, Guillaume Amontons ranks 13. Before him are Catherine of Braganza, John Ray, Philipp Spener, Madame d'Aulnoy, Pierre Beauchamp, and George William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. After him are Princess Dorothea Charlotte of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Bada Shanren, Princess Wilhelmine Ernestine of Denmark, Princess Luise Dorothea of Prussia, Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Johann Ernst Glück.

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In France

Among people born in France, Guillaume Amontons ranks 2,180 out of 6,770. Before him are Henri Gouraud (1867), Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Alençon (1844), Louis Alexandre, Prince of Lamballe (1747), Jean-Jacques Goldman (1951), Ghislaine Maxwell (1961), and Pierre Messmer (1916). After him are Jean-Féry Rebel (1666), Yann Arthus-Bertrand (1946), Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne (1727), Emanuel Ungaro (1933), François-Henri Pinault (1962), and Eugène Fromentin (1820).

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Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, Guillaume Amontons ranks 24. Before him are Charles-Émile Reynaud (1844), André Michelin (1853), Henri Giffard (1825), Jean-Pierre Blanchard (1753), Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (1817), and Édouard Branly (1844). After him are Charles Cros (1842), Joseph Monier (1823), Georges Claude (1870), Charles Xavier Thomas (1785), Émile Baudot (1845), and Georges Hébert (1875).

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