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Henri Pitot

1695 - 1771

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Henri Pitot (French: [ɑ̃ʁi pito]; May 3, 1695 – December 27, 1771) was a French hydraulic engineer and the inventor of the pitot tube. In a pitot tube, the height of the fluid column is proportional to the square of the velocity of the fluid at the depth of the inlet to the pitot tube. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henri Pitot has received more than 63,761 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Henri Pitot is the 348th most popular physicist (down from 327th in 2019), the 1,956th most popular biography from France (down from 1,745th in 2019) and the 39th most popular French Physicist.

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Henri Pitot ranks 348 out of 717. Before him are John Theophilus Desaguliers, Heinrich Geißler, Donna Strickland, Edward Witten, Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, and Jean-Antoine Nollet. After him are George Johnstone Stoney, Léon Brillouin, Galileo Ferraris, Hans Kramers, William Sturgeon, and Luis Walter Alvarez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1695, Henri Pitot ranks 6. Before him are Mary Read, Pietro Locatelli, Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans, Nicolaus II Bernoulli, and Adrien Manglard. After him are Louis Armand II, Prince of Conti, John Bevis, Giuseppe Sammartini, François de Cuvilliés, Johann Christian Günther, and Edward Braddock. Among people deceased in 1771, Henri Pitot ranks 6. Before him are Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden, Claude Adrien Helvétius, Philip Miller, Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, and Giovanni Battista Morgagni. After him are Louis-Michel van Loo, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, Alexei Razumovsky, Thomas Gray, John Bevis, and Tobias Smollett.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henri Pitot ranks 1,956 out of 6,011. Before him are Jacques Cathelineau (1759), Tony Garnier (1869), Charles II Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers (1609), Jean-Marie Villot (1905), Nicolas de Largillière (1656), and Alizée (1984). After him are Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714), Beatrice of Burgundy, Lady of Bourbon (1257), Sophie de Condorcet (1764), Hugh Magnus (1007), Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy (1920), and François Furet (1927).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Henri Pitot ranks 39. Before him are Marguerite Perey (1909), Gaston Planté (1834), Jean Charles Athanase Peltier (1785), Félix Savart (1791), John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683), and Jean-Antoine Nollet (1700). After him are Léon Brillouin (1889), Maurice de Broglie (1875), Henri Tresca (1814), Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval (1851), Louis Poinsot (1777), and Louis Paul Cailletet (1832).

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