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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 135,745 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Henry Darcy is the 104th most popular engineer (down from 90th in 2019), the 2,081st most popular biography from France (down from 1,828th in 2019) and the 12th most popular French Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Henry Darcy ranks 104 out of 389. Before him are Vasily Degtyaryov, Hertha Ayrton, Nikolai Polikarpov, Harry Nyquist, Viktor Kaplan, and Adrian Newey. After him are Eupalinos, Carlo Abarth, Stephen Timoshenko, Yevgeny Dragunov, Robert Stephenson, and Pierre Clostermann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1803, Henry Darcy ranks 26. Before him are Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville, John Ericsson, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Muhammad IV of Morocco, Jacques Charles François Sturm, and Joseph Paxton. After him are Alexander Georg von Bunge, John Sutter, Robert Stephenson, Henri Herz, Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff, and Karl Gützlaff. Among people deceased in 1858, Henry Darcy ranks 27. Before him are Princess Margaretha of Saxony, Carl Gustaf Mosander, Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Tokugawa Iesada, Nimatullah Kassab, and Felice Orsini. After him are Aloys II, Prince of Liechtenstein, Rachel Félix, Louis II, Grand Duke of Baden, Valentín Gómez Farías, Sigismund von Neukomm, and Johann Baptist Cramer.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henry Darcy ranks 2,081 out of 6,770. Before him are Prosper of Aquitaine (390), Antoine Béchamp (1816), Jean Maximilien Lamarque (1770), Elif Shafak (1971), Max Decugis (1882), and Victorine Meurent (1844). After him are John Frederick, Duke of Württemberg (1582), Guy Hamilton (1922), Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti (1629), Pierre Lemaitre (1951), Charles II, Count of Alençon (1297), and Gonzalo Higuaín (1987).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Henry Darcy ranks 12. Before him are Paul Cornu (1881), Marcel Dassault (1892), Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt (1240), Marcel Renault (1872), Henri Farman (1874), and André Courrèges (1923). After him are François Laurent d'Arlandes (1742), Alexandre Darracq (1855), Georges Leclanché (1836), Pierre Berthier (1782), Pierre-Émile Martin (1824), and Gabriel Voisin (1880).

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