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Hippolyte Fizeau

1819 - 1896

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Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau (French: [ipɔlit 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 196,331 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Hippolyte Fizeau is the 111th most popular physicist (down from 101st in 2019), the 487th most popular biography from France (down from 478th in 2019) and the 15th 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 111 out of 851. Before him are Owen Chamberlain, Roger Penrose, Alfred Kastler, Jean-Baptiste Biot, Heinrich Rohrer, and Ben Roy Mottelson. After him are Peter Debye, Anders Jonas Ångström, Joseph Henry, Walter Houser Brattain, Arnold Sommerfeld, and Paul Langevin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Hippolyte Fizeau ranks 11. Before him are Léon Foucault, Herman Melville, Albert, Prince Consort, Walt Whitman, Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, and Báb. After him are Maria II of Portugal, John Ruskin, George Eliot, Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, John Couch Adams, and William T. G. Morton. Among people deceased in 1896, Hippolyte Fizeau ranks 9. Before him are Anton Bruckner, Paul Verlaine, Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria, August Kekulé, William Morris, and Ivar Aasen. After him are Otto Lilienthal, José Rizal, John Everett Millais, Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and H. H. Holmes.

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In France

Among people born in France, Hippolyte Fizeau ranks 487 out of 6,770. Before him are Carus (230), Patrick Modiano (1945), Genevieve (423), Jean Arp (1886), Jacques Delors (1925), and Mireille Darc (1938). After him are Louis-Alexandre Berthier (1753), Antoine of Navarre (1518), Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1714), Alfred Werner (1866), Christine Lagarde (1956), and Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Hippolyte Fizeau ranks 15. Before him are Louis de Broglie (1892), Hans Bethe (1906), Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870), François Arago (1786), Alfred Kastler (1902), and Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774). After him are Paul Langevin (1872), Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788), Jacques Charles (1763), Albert Fert (1938), Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (1799), and Louis Néel (1904).

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