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Jacques Babinet

1794 - 1872

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Jacques Babinet (French: [babinɛ]; 5 March 1794 – 21 October 1872) was a French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer who is best known for his contributions to optics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques Babinet has received more than 51,953 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Jacques Babinet is the 472nd most popular physicist (down from 447th in 2019), the 2,971st most popular biography from France (down from 2,919th in 2019) and the 57th most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Jacques Babinet ranks 472 out of 851. Before him are Gaspard de Prony, Evgeny Lifshitz, Yuval Ne'eman, Marie Alfred Cornu, Dennis W. Sciama, and John Kerr. After him are Pyotr Lebedev, Clarence Zener, Johann Christian Poggendorff, Anatole Abragam, Max Abraham, and Ole Worm.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1794, Jacques Babinet ranks 28. Before him are Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Achille Richard, Jean Pierre Flourens, Jacques Collin de Plancy, Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg, and René Lesson. After him are Princess Louise of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Ernst I, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Carl Borivoj Presl, Heinrich Wilhelm Schott, Konstantin Thon, and Heinrich Boie. Among people deceased in 1872, Jacques Babinet ranks 37. Before him are Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg, Avram Iancu, Petar Preradović, Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Alfred Clebsch, and Pavel Kiselyov. After him are Kamehameha V, Carl Jaenisch, Princess Feodora of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Horace Greeley, Princess Amalia of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Martin Ohm.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Babinet ranks 2,971 out of 6,770. Before him are N'Golo Kanté (1991), René Lesson (1794), Nicolas Coustou (1658), Paul Émile Appell (1855), Jean Fernel (1497), and André Salmon (1881). After him are Adrien Maurice de Noailles (1678), Marie-José Nat (1940), Marie Marvingt (1875), Jules Armand Dufaure (1798), Francis Ponge (1899), and Walter V, Count of Brienne (1278).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Jacques Babinet ranks 57. Before him are Louis-François-Clement Breguet (1804), Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille (1797), Jules Jamin (1818), Pierre Victor Auger (1899), Gaspard de Prony (1755), and Marie Alfred Cornu (1841). After him are Claude Pouillet (1790), Gustave Trouvé (1839), Alfred Perot (1863), Pierre Weiss (1865), Carl August von Steinheil (1801), and Alexis Thérèse Petit (1791).

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