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Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval

1851 - 1940

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Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval (8 June 1851 – 31 December 1940) was a French physician, physicist and inventor of the moving-coil D'Arsonval galvanometer and the thermocouple ammeter. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval has received more than 72,474 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval is the 400th most popular physicist (down from 385th in 2019), the 2,354th most popular biography from France (down from 2,284th in 2019) and the 48th most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval ranks 400 out of 851. Before him are Friedrich Ernst Dorn, Edward Witten, Takaaki Kajita, Samuel Goudsmit, Hantaro Nagaoka, and Chester Carlson. After him are Nick Holonyak, Ányos Jedlik, Rudolf Peierls, Walther Gerlach, John Canton, and Wander Johannes de Haas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1851, Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval ranks 41. Before him are Angelo Moriondo, Stephan Burián von Rajecz, Jacobus Kapteyn, Jonas Basanavičius, Franz von Liszt, and Désiré-Joseph Mercier. After him are Luis Ricardo Falero, Alois Jirásek, Charles Joseph Bonaparte, Aristide Bruant, Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, and Charles Chamberland. Among people deceased in 1940, Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval ranks 64. Before him are Édouard Branly, Jesse Livermore, Nedo Nadi, Lewis Hine, Marie Krøyer, and Willi Münzenberg. After him are Phan Bội Châu, Luigi Orione, Jehan Alain, Henri Desgrange, Janina Lewandowska, and J.-H. Rosny aîné.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval ranks 2,354 out of 6,770. Before him are Gaston III, Count of Foix (1331), Madeleine de La Tour d'Auvergne (1498), Jean Bruller (1902), Bernadette Chirac (1933), Anne Golon (1921), and Magdalena of France (1443). After him are Robert Manzon (1917), François Coppée (1842), Nicolas Chopin (1771), John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset (1373), Peter Bartholomew (1100), and Princess Françoise of Orléans (1844).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval ranks 48. Before him are Charles Fabry (1867), Maurice de Broglie (1875), Jules Antoine Lissajous (1822), Jean-Antoine Nollet (1700), Louis Poinsot (1777), and Léon Brillouin (1889). After him are Henri Tresca (1814), Louis Paul Cailletet (1832), Louis-François-Clement Breguet (1804), Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille (1797), Jules Jamin (1818), and Pierre Victor Auger (1899).

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