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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 67,086 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval is the 385th most popular physicist (down from 337th in 2019), the 2,291st most popular biography from France (down from 1,834th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval ranks 385 out of 717Before him are Henri Tresca, Robert W. Wood, Lyman Spitzer, Chester Carlson, Johann Andreas Segner, and Wolfgang Ketterle. After him are Philip Abelson, Louis Poinsot, Friedrich Paschen, John Henry Poynting, Louis Paul Cailletet, and Duncan Haldane.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1851, Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval ranks 36Before him are Guillaume Bigourdan, Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Désiré-Joseph Mercier, Jacobus Kapteyn, Theodor Lipps, and Melvil Dewey. After him are Charles Dupuy, Arne Garborg, Stephan Burián von Rajecz, Jonas Basanavičius, Oliver Lodge, and Edward Walter Maunder. Among people deceased in 1940, Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval ranks 58Before him are Paul Nizan, Anton Korošec, Arthur Zimmermann, Wilhelm Dörpfeld, Alfred Loisy, and Anton Hansen Tammsaare. After him are Pedro de Alcântara, Prince of Grão-Pará, Marie Krøyer, Jehan Alain, Luigi Orione, Édouard Branly, and Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval ranks 2,291 out of 6,011Before him are Jean Lafitte (1776), Pierre Henry (1927), Jacques Amyot (1513), Honoré d'Urfé (1567), Saint Martial (300), and Victorine Meurent (1844). After him are Violette Leduc (1907), Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant (1797), Jean-Baptiste Denys (1643), Hans von Salmuth (1888), Marguerite of Lorraine (1615), and Benjamin Péret (1899).

Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval ranks 43Before him are John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683), Jean-Antoine Nollet (1700), Henri Pitot (1695), Léon Brillouin (1889), Maurice de Broglie (1875), and Henri Tresca (1814). After him are Louis Poinsot (1777), Louis Paul Cailletet (1832), Auguste Bravais (1811), Jules Jamin (1818), Alain Aspect (1947), and Marie Alfred Cornu (1841).