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PHYSICIST

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 47,638 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Jacques Babinet is the 447th most popular physicist (down from 436th in 2019), the 2,928th most popular biography from France (down from 2,671st in 2019) and the 52nd most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Jacques Babinet ranks 447 out of 717Before him are Richard Mollier, G. M. B. Dobson, Ivan Puluj, Heinrich Rubens, Grote Reber, and Friedrich Kohlrausch. After him are William Robert Grove, Hiroshi Amano, Walther Ritz, Charles Galton Darwin, Jules Antoine Lissajous, and Giovanni Poleni.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1794, Jacques Babinet ranks 28Before him are Mirza Shafi Vazeh, Pyotr Chaadayev, Johann Heinrich von Mädler, Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Abbasgulu Bakikhanov, and Jean Pierre Flourens. After him are Princess Louise of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Konstantin Thon, Heinrich Wilhelm Schott, Joseph Lebeau, Wei Yuan, and Princess Amalie of Saxony. Among people deceased in 1872, Jacques Babinet ranks 36Before him are Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Avram Iancu, Alfred Clebsch, John Frederick Kensett, George Meade, and Petar Preradović. After him are Princess Amalia of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Carl Jaenisch, Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg, Horace Greeley, Martin Ohm, and Michele Carafa.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Babinet ranks 2,928 out of 6,011Before him are Henri Maspero (1883), Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval (1808), Eustace III, Count of Boulogne (1060), Jean Pierre Flourens (1794), Léon Gaumont (1864), and Pierre Pigneau de Behaine (1741). After him are Michael Baius (1513), Pierre Attaingnant (1494), Henri Mathias Berthelot (1861), Étienne Pivert de Senancour (1770), Louise Farrenc (1804), and Raël (1946).

Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Jacques Babinet ranks 52Before him are Auguste Bravais (1811), Jules Jamin (1818), Alain Aspect (1947), Marie Alfred Cornu (1841), Gaspard de Prony (1755), and Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille (1797). After him are Jules Antoine Lissajous (1822), Claude Pouillet (1790), Pierre Victor Auger (1899), Pierre Weiss (1865), Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700), and Alexis Thérèse Petit (1791).