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PHYSICIST

Hippolyte Fizeau

1819 - 1896

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Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau FRS FRSE MIF (French pronunciation: [aʁmɑ̃ ipɔlit lwi fizo]; 23 September 1819 – 18 September 1896) was a French physicist, who in 1849 measured the speed of light to within 5% accuracy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hippolyte Fizeau has received more than 176,178 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Hippolyte Fizeau is the 101st most popular physicist (down from 100th in 2019), the 478th most popular biography from France (up from 503rd in 2019) and the 12th most popular French Physicist.

Hippolyte Fizeau was a French physicist who was most famous for his work in the field of optics. He is most famous for being the first person to measure the speed of light.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Hippolyte Fizeau ranks 101 out of 717Before him are Manne Siegbahn, William Henry Bragg, Edward Teller, Walther Bothe, C. V. Raman, and Joseph Henry. After him are Alfred Kastler, Joseph von Fraunhofer, Kip Thorne, Henry Moseley, George Gamow, and Javier Solana.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Hippolyte Fizeau ranks 11Before him are Clara Schumann, Léon Foucault, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, and Báb. After him are George Eliot, Maria II of Portugal, John Ruskin, William T. G. Morton, Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, and John Couch Adams. Among people deceased in 1896, Hippolyte Fizeau ranks 8Before him are Paul Verlaine, Clara Schumann, Anton Bruckner, Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria, August Kekulé, and William Morris. After him are Otto Lilienthal, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ivar Aasen, John Everett Millais, H. H. Holmes, and Naser al-Din Shah Qajar.

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In France

Among people born in France, Hippolyte Fizeau ranks 478 out of 6,011Before him are Jean-François Lyotard (1924), Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (1747), Karl Brandt (1904), Hugues de Payens (1074), Carlos Gardel (1890), and Christine Lagarde (1956). After him are Aristide Briand (1862), Alfred Kastler (1902), Emmanuel Macron (1977), Henri, Count of Chambord (1820), Victor Grignard (1871), and Gérard Philipe (1922).

Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Hippolyte Fizeau ranks 12Before him are Louis de Broglie (1892), Léon Foucault (1819), Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900), Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (1792), Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870), and Paul Langevin (1872). After him are Alfred Kastler (1902), Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788), François Arago (1786), Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (1799), Albert Fert (1938), and Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774).