1819 - 1896
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, Hippolyte Fizeau ranks 101 out of 717. Before 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.
1886 - 1978
HPI: 68.34
Rank: 95
1862 - 1942
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 96
1908 - 2003
HPI: 68.16
Rank: 97
1891 - 1957
HPI: 67.98
Rank: 98
1888 - 1970
HPI: 67.89
Rank: 99
1797 - 1878
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 100
1819 - 1896
HPI: 67.80
Rank: 101
1902 - 1984
HPI: 67.78
Rank: 102
1787 - 1826
HPI: 67.64
Rank: 103
1940 - Present
HPI: 67.63
Rank: 104
1887 - 1915
HPI: 67.42
Rank: 105
1904 - 1968
HPI: 67.38
Rank: 106
1942 - Present
HPI: 67.25
Rank: 107
Among people born in 1819, Hippolyte Fizeau ranks 11. Before 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 8. Before 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.
1819 - 1896
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 5
1819 - 1868
HPI: 73.53
Rank: 6
1819 - 1891
HPI: 72.37
Rank: 7
1819 - 1892
HPI: 71.08
Rank: 8
1819 - 1903
HPI: 69.48
Rank: 9
1819 - 1850
HPI: 68.09
Rank: 10
1819 - 1896
HPI: 67.80
Rank: 11
1819 - 1880
HPI: 67.58
Rank: 12
1819 - 1853
HPI: 67.17
Rank: 13
1819 - 1900
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 14
1819 - 1868
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 15
1819 - 1901
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 16
1819 - 1892
HPI: 64.59
Rank: 17
1844 - 1896
HPI: 75.77
Rank: 2
1819 - 1896
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 3
1824 - 1896
HPI: 74.74
Rank: 4
1833 - 1896
HPI: 70.99
Rank: 5
1829 - 1896
HPI: 69.45
Rank: 6
1834 - 1896
HPI: 69.43
Rank: 7
1819 - 1896
HPI: 67.80
Rank: 8
1848 - 1896
HPI: 67.74
Rank: 9
1811 - 1896
HPI: 66.18
Rank: 10
1813 - 1896
HPI: 64.86
Rank: 11
1829 - 1896
HPI: 64.62
Rank: 12
1861 - 1896
HPI: 63.70
Rank: 13
1831 - 1896
HPI: 63.58
Rank: 14
Among people born in France, Hippolyte Fizeau ranks 478 out of 6,011. Before 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).
1924 - 1998
HPI: 67.90
Rank: 472
1747 - 1793
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 473
1904 - 1948
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 474
1074 - 1136
HPI: 67.87
Rank: 475
1890 - 1935
HPI: 67.86
Rank: 476
1956 - Present
HPI: 67.83
Rank: 477
1819 - 1896
HPI: 67.80
Rank: 478
1862 - 1932
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 479
1902 - 1984
HPI: 67.78
Rank: 480
1977 - Present
HPI: 67.74
Rank: 481
1820 - 1883
HPI: 67.73
Rank: 482
1871 - 1935
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 483
1922 - 1959
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 484
Among physicists born in France, Hippolyte Fizeau ranks 12. Before 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).
1892 - 1987
HPI: 74.19
Rank: 6
1819 - 1868
HPI: 73.53
Rank: 7
1900 - 1958
HPI: 72.84
Rank: 8
1792 - 1843
HPI: 69.92
Rank: 9
1870 - 1942
HPI: 69.37
Rank: 10
1872 - 1946
HPI: 68.53
Rank: 11
1819 - 1896
HPI: 67.80
Rank: 12
1902 - 1984
HPI: 67.78
Rank: 13
1788 - 1827
HPI: 67.18
Rank: 14
1786 - 1853
HPI: 66.65
Rank: 15
1799 - 1864
HPI: 65.82
Rank: 16
1938 - Present
HPI: 65.76
Rank: 17
1774 - 1862
HPI: 65.70
Rank: 18