1794 - 1872
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, Jacques Babinet ranks 447 out of 717. Before 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.
1863 - 1935
HPI: 52.88
Rank: 441
1889 - 1975
HPI: 52.68
Rank: 442
1845 - 1918
HPI: 52.64
Rank: 443
1865 - 1922
HPI: 52.57
Rank: 444
1911 - 2002
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 445
1840 - 1910
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 446
1794 - 1872
HPI: 52.42
Rank: 447
1811 - 1896
HPI: 52.38
Rank: 448
1960 - Present
HPI: 52.37
Rank: 449
1878 - 1909
HPI: 52.37
Rank: 450
1887 - 1962
HPI: 52.29
Rank: 451
1822 - 1880
HPI: 52.28
Rank: 452
1683 - 1761
HPI: 52.28
Rank: 453
Among people born in 1794, Jacques Babinet ranks 28. Before 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 36. Before 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.
1794 - 1852
HPI: 54.26
Rank: 22
1794 - 1856
HPI: 54.08
Rank: 23
1794 - 1874
HPI: 53.85
Rank: 24
1794 - 1872
HPI: 53.49
Rank: 25
1794 - 1847
HPI: 53.11
Rank: 26
1794 - 1867
HPI: 52.43
Rank: 27
1794 - 1872
HPI: 52.42
Rank: 28
1794 - 1825
HPI: 52.39
Rank: 29
1794 - 1881
HPI: 51.45
Rank: 30
1794 - 1865
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 31
1794 - 1865
HPI: 51.11
Rank: 32
1794 - 1857
HPI: 50.81
Rank: 33
1794 - 1870
HPI: 50.75
Rank: 34
1794 - 1872
HPI: 53.49
Rank: 30
1824 - 1872
HPI: 53.32
Rank: 31
1833 - 1872
HPI: 53.13
Rank: 32
1816 - 1872
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 33
1815 - 1872
HPI: 52.57
Rank: 34
1818 - 1872
HPI: 52.57
Rank: 35
1794 - 1872
HPI: 52.42
Rank: 36
1830 - 1872
HPI: 51.65
Rank: 37
1813 - 1872
HPI: 51.47
Rank: 38
1802 - 1872
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 39
1811 - 1872
HPI: 51.03
Rank: 40
1792 - 1872
HPI: 50.58
Rank: 41
1787 - 1872
HPI: 50.53
Rank: 42
Among people born in France, Jacques Babinet ranks 2,928 out of 6,011. Before 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).
1883 - 1945
HPI: 52.46
Rank: 2,922
1808 - 1885
HPI: 52.45
Rank: 2,923
1060 - 1125
HPI: 52.45
Rank: 2,924
1794 - 1867
HPI: 52.43
Rank: 2,925
1864 - 1946
HPI: 52.43
Rank: 2,926
1741 - 1799
HPI: 52.42
Rank: 2,927
1794 - 1872
HPI: 52.42
Rank: 2,928
1513 - 1589
HPI: 52.41
Rank: 2,929
1494 - 1552
HPI: 52.40
Rank: 2,930
1861 - 1931
HPI: 52.40
Rank: 2,931
1770 - 1846
HPI: 52.40
Rank: 2,932
1804 - 1875
HPI: 52.40
Rank: 2,933
1946 - Present
HPI: 52.40
Rank: 2,934
Among physicists born in France, Jacques Babinet ranks 52. Before 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).
1811 - 1863
HPI: 53.79
Rank: 46
1818 - 1886
HPI: 53.53
Rank: 47
1947 - Present
HPI: 53.38
Rank: 48
1841 - 1902
HPI: 53.34
Rank: 49
1755 - 1839
HPI: 53.14
Rank: 50
1797 - 1869
HPI: 52.92
Rank: 51
1794 - 1872
HPI: 52.42
Rank: 52
1822 - 1880
HPI: 52.28
Rank: 53
1790 - 1868
HPI: 51.62
Rank: 54
1899 - 1993
HPI: 51.33
Rank: 55
1865 - 1940
HPI: 51.07
Rank: 56
1700 - 1782
HPI: 50.94
Rank: 57
1791 - 1820
HPI: 49.43
Rank: 58