PHYSICIST

Jacques Charles

1763 - 1823

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Jacques Alexandre César Charles (12 November 1746 – 7 April 1823) was a French inventor, scientist, mathematician, and balloonist. Charles wrote almost nothing about mathematics, and most of what has been credited to him was due to mistaking him with another Jacques Charles (sometimes called Charles the Geometer), also a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences, entering on 12 May 1785. Charles and the Robert brothers launched the world's first hydrogen-filled gas balloon August 27, 1783; then December 1, 1783, Charles and his co-pilot Nicolas-Louis Robert ascended to a height of about 1,800 feet (550 m) in a piloted gas balloon. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques Charles has received more than 457,098 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Jacques Charles is the 144th most popular physicist (down from 139th in 2019), the 602nd most popular biography from France (up from 651st in 2019) and the 18th most popular French Physicist.

Jacques Charles was a French chemist who is most famous for his discovery of the law of gases, which states that the volume of a gas varies inversely with the pressure.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Jacques Charles ranks 144 out of 851. Before him are Augustin-Jean Fresnel, Rudolf Mössbauer, George Paget Thomson, Donald A. Glaser, Auguste Piccard, and Kip Thorne. After him are Georges Charpak, Pavel Cherenkov, Hannes Alfvén, Simon van der Meer, Karl Schwarzschild, and Willard Boyle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1763, Jacques Charles ranks 4. Before him are Empress Joséphine, Charles XIV John of Sweden, and Józef Poniatowski. After him are Jean Paul, Jean Victor Marie Moreau, Claude Chappe, Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, Augustin Robespierre, Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, Kobayashi Issa, and Guillaume Brune. Among people deceased in 1823, Jacques Charles ranks 6. Before him are David Ricardo, Edward Jenner, Pope Pius VII, Louis-Nicolas Davout, and Lazare Carnot. After him are Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Charles François Dumouriez, Ann Radcliffe, André-Jacques Garnerin, Edmund Cartwright, and Abraham-Louis Breguet.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Charles ranks 602 out of 6,770. Before him are Anaïs Nin (1903), Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine (1712), Alain Resnais (1922), Salome Zourabichvili (1952), Jean-Baptiste Kléber (1753), and Alfred Jarry (1873). After him are Maurice de Vlaminck (1876), Fulk, King of Jerusalem (1092), Camille Flammarion (1842), Emmanuel de Grouchy, marquis de Grouchy (1766), William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (1071), and William Wyler (1902).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Jacques Charles ranks 18. Before him are François Arago (1786), Alfred Kastler (1902), Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774), Hippolyte Fizeau (1819), Paul Langevin (1872), and Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788). After him are Albert Fert (1938), Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (1799), Louis Néel (1904), Alain Aspect (1947), Edme Mariotte (1620), and Gérard Mourou (1944).

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