GEOLOGIST

Jean-André Deluc

1727 - 1817

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Jean-André Deluc or de Luc (8 February 1727 – 7 November 1817) was a geologist, natural philosopher and meteorologist from the Republic of Geneva. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-André Deluc has received more than 52,672 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-André Deluc is the 22nd most popular geologist, the 229th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 222nd in 2019) and the most popular Swiss Geologist.

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Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Jean-André Deluc ranks 22 out of 90. Before him are Beno Gutenberg, Christian Leopold von Buch, Ignacy Domeyko, Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, Giuseppe Mercalli, and Gideon Mantell. After him are William Buckland, Adam Sedgwick, John Tuzo Wilson, Vladimir Obruchev, Julius von Haast, and Norman L. Bowen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1727, Jean-André Deluc ranks 19. Before him are Prince Karl Anton August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne, Ercole III d'Este, Duke of Modena, Tommaso Traetta, Pasquale Anfossi, and Johann Gottlieb Goldberg. After him are Philibert Commerson, Horatio Gates, Ernest Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, James Wolfe, François-Hubert Drouais, and Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Gobel. Among people deceased in 1817, Jean-André Deluc ranks 25. Before him are Étienne Méhul, Ibrahim Bey, Andrea Appiani, Duke Louis of Württemberg, Giacomo Quarenghi, and Infante Antonio Pascual of Spain. After him are Princess Hermine of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, Policarpa Salavarrieta, Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau, Jean-Sifrein Maury, and Joseph von Sonnenfels.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Jean-André Deluc ranks 229 out of 1,015. Before him are Pascal Couchepin (1942), Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac (1817), Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (1742), Carl Nägeli (1817), Marcel Bezençon (1907), and Pierre Jeanneret (1896). After him are Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825), Jean Vanier (1928), Heinrich Glarean (1488), Emil Brunner (1889), Pancho Vladigerov (1899), and Eugène Grasset (1845).

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Among GEOLOGISTS In Switzerland

Among geologists born in Switzerland, Jean-André Deluc ranks 1. After him are Albert Heim (1849), and Paul Niggli (1888).

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