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Horace Bénédict de Saussure

1740 - 1799

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Horace Bénédict de Saussure (French pronunciation: [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 77,786 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Horace Bénédict de Saussure is the 8th most popular mountaineer (down from 6th in 2019), the 97th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 90th 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 8 out of 45. Before him are Reinhold Messner, Tenzing Norgay, Heinrich Harrer, George Mallory, Jerzy Kukuczka, and Junko Tabei. After him are Hermann Buhl, Edward Whymper, Wanda Rutkiewicz, Green Boots, Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, and Jacques Balmat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1740, Horace Bénédict de Saussure ranks 7. Before him are Marquis de Sade, Ivan VI of Russia, Giovanni Paisiello, Empress Go-Sakuramachi, Isabelle de Charrière, and Jeanne Baret. After him are Carl Michael Bellman, Johann Jacob Schweppe, Giambattista Bodoni, Johann van Beethoven, Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay, and Louis-Sébastien Mercier. Among people deceased in 1799, Horace Bénédict de Saussure ranks 12. Before him are Tipu Sultan, Joseph Black, Lazzaro Spallanzani, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Heshen, and Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria. After him are Victoire of France, Étienne-Louis Boullée, Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Jan Ingenhousz, Jean-Charles de Borda, and Barthélemy Catherine Joubert.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Horace Bénédict de Saussure ranks 97 out of 876. Before him are Albrecht von Haller (1708), Alfred Cortot (1877), Jakob Steiner (1796), Bernardino Luini (1475), Louis Chevrolet (1878), and Gianni Infantino (1970). After him are Jost Bürgi (1552), Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821), Nicholas of Flüe (1417), Hannes Meyer (1889), Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778), and Germain Henri Hess (1802).

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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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