PHYSICIST

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. This relationship was discovered by Henri Pitot in 1732, when he was assigned the task of measuring the flow in the river Seine.He rose to fame with the design of the Aqueduc de Saint-Clément near Montpellier (the construction lasted thirteen years), and the extension of Pont du Gard in Nîmes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henri Pitot has received more than 62,932 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Henri Pitot is the 322nd most popular physicist (up from 348th in 2019), the 1,548th most popular biography from France (up from 1,949th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular French Physicist.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Over the past year Henri Pitot has had the most page views in the with 8,141 views, followed by German (3,894), and French (3,832). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Indonesian (362.75%), Egyptian Arabic (209.59%), and Malagasy (154.77%)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Henri Pitot ranks 322 out of 851. Before him are Fritjof Capra, Robert B. Laughlin, Ernst Chladni, William Whewell, John C. Mather, and Kenneth G. Wilson. After him are Samuel C. C. Ting, Thomas Johann Seebeck, Bruno Pontecorvo, John B. Goodenough, Luis Walter Alvarez, and Daniel C. Tsui.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1695, Henri Pitot ranks 3. Before him are Mary Read, and Pietro Locatelli. After him are Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans, Giuseppe Sammartini, Adrien Manglard, Louis Armand II, Prince of Conti, Martin van Meytens, John Bevis, François de Cuvilliés, and Carl Gustaf Tessin. 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, John Bevis, Frederick William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, and Tobias Smollett.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henri Pitot ranks 1,548 out of 6,770. Before him are Charles of Valois, Duke of Berry (1446), Arnaud Amalric (1160), Eugène Schueller (1881), Henri Murger (1822), Eléonore Denuelle de La Plaigne (1787), and Louis-Gabriel Suchet (1770). After him are Alcide d'Orbigny (1802), Philip, Duke of Orléans (1336), Peter II, Duke of Bourbon (1438), Micheline Presle (1922), Adalberon (947), and Olivier Giroud (1986).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Henri Pitot ranks 33. Before him are Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier (1754), Edmond Becquerel (1820), Antoine César Becquerel (1788), Anne L'Huillier (1958), Hélène Langevin-Joliot (1927), and Paul-Jacques Curie (1855). After him are Félix Savart (1791), Pierre Louis Dulong (1785), John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683), Jean Charles Athanase Peltier (1785), Jean-Charles de Borda (1733), and Marguerite Perey (1909).

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