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Henry Darcy

1803 - 1858

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Henry Philibert Gaspard Darcy (French: [ɑ̃ʁi daʁsi]; 10 June 1803 – 3 January 1858) was a French engineer who made several important contributions to hydraulics, including Darcy’s law for flow in porous media. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Darcy has received more than 126,605 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Henry Darcy is the 92nd most popular engineer (down from 85th in 2019), the 1,835th most popular biography from France (down from 1,668th in 2019) and the 11th most popular French Engineer.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Henry Darcy ranks 92 out of 323. Before him are Harry Nyquist, Ivan Sechenov, Valdemar Poulsen, Mikhail Gurevich, Stephen Timoshenko, and Joseph M. Juran. After him are Immanuel Nobel, Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr., Nikolai Polikarpov, André Courrèges, Claude Dornier, and Mikhail Mil.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1803, Henry Darcy ranks 23. Before him are Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville, Princess Alexandrine of Prussia, John Ericsson, and Joseph Paxton. After him are John Sutter, Friedrich von Amerling, Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff, Robert Stephenson, and Henri Herz. Among people deceased in 1858, Henry Darcy ranks 23. Before him are Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Harriet Taylor Mill, Carl Gustaf Mosander, Joseph Karl Stieler, and Tokugawa Iesada. After him are Nimatullah Kassab, Ida Laura Pfeiffer, Aloys II, Prince of Liechtenstein, Felice Orsini, Louis II, Grand Duke of Baden, and Mustafa Reşid Pasha.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henry Darcy ranks 1,835 out of 6,011. Before him are Alphonse Borrelly (1842), Chilperic of Aquitaine (600), Marie de Gournay (1565), Jean-Pierre Aumont (1911), Alix of France (1151), and William Clito (1102). After him are Claude Sautet (1924), François Magendie (1783), René Char (1907), Blandina (101), Le Pétomane (1857), and Étienne François, duc de Choiseul (1719).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Henry Darcy ranks 11. Before him are Villard de Honnecourt (1200), Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt (1240), Paul Cornu (1881), Marcel Dassault (1892), Marcel Renault (1872), and Henri Farman (1874). After him are André Courrèges (1923), François Laurent d'Arlandes (1742), Alexandre Darracq (1855), Pierre Berthier (1782), Philippe LeBon (1767), and Gabriel Voisin (1880).

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