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Horace Bénédict de Saussure

1740 - 1799

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Horace Bénédict de Saussure (French: [ɔʁas benedikt də sosyʁ]; 17 February 1740 – 22 January 1799) was a Genevan geologist, meteorologist, physicist, mountaineer and Alpine explorer, often called the founder of alpinism and modern meteorology, and considered to be the first person to build a successful solar oven. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Horace Bénédict de Saussure has received more than 87,683 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Horace Bénédict de Saussure is the 6th most popular mountaineer (up from 8th in 2019), the 73rd most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 97th in 2019) and the most popular Swiss Mountaineer.

In the late 1700s, Horace Bénédict de Saussure used a thermometer to measure the temperature of the air and water in the Swiss Alps. He also used a barometer to measure the air pressure and discovered that when the barometer is high, the temperature is low.

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Among MOUNTAINEERS

Among mountaineers, Horace Bénédict de Saussure ranks 6 out of 56. Before him are Edmund Hillary, Reinhold Messner, Tenzing Norgay, Heinrich Harrer, and George Mallory. After him are Junko Tabei, Jerzy Kukuczka, Edward Whymper, Hermann Buhl, Jacques Balmat, and Walter Bonatti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1740, Horace Bénédict de Saussure ranks 6. Before him are Marquis de Sade, Ivan VI of Russia, Giovanni Paisiello, Empress Go-Sakuramachi, and Isabelle de Charrière. After him are Jeanne Baret, Johann van Beethoven, Johann Jacob Schweppe, Carl Michael Bellman, Giambattista Bodoni, and Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay. Among people deceased in 1799, Horace Bénédict de Saussure ranks 10. Before him are Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Pierre Beaumarchais, Tipu Sultan, Joseph Black, Lazzaro Spallanzani, and Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. After him are Victoire of France, Heshen, Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria, Étienne-Louis Boullée, Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, and Chevalier de Saint-Georges.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Horace Bénédict de Saussure ranks 73 out of 1,015. Before him are Richard R. Ernst (1933), Alexandre Yersin (1863), Clay Regazzoni (1939), Lys Assia (1924), Peter Zumthor (1943), and Domenico Fontana (1543). After him are Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778), Alejo Carpentier (1904), Sigismond Thalberg (1812), Werner Arber (1929), Friedrich Miescher (1844), and Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784).

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Among MOUNTAINEERS In Switzerland

Among mountaineers born in Switzerland, Horace Bénédict de Saussure ranks 1. After him are Matthias Zurbriggen (1856), Erhard Loretan (1959), and Ueli Steck (1976).

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