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Jean-Antoine Nollet

1700 - 1770

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Jean-Antoine Nollet (French: [ʒɑ̃ ɑ̃twan nole]; 19 November 1700 – 25 April 1770) was a French clergyman and physicist who did a number of experiments with electricity and discovered osmosis. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Antoine Nollet has received more than 96,823 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-Antoine Nollet is the 369th most popular physicist (down from 347th in 2019), the 2,035th most popular biography from France (down from 1,939th in 2019) and the 45th most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Jean-Antoine Nollet ranks 369 out of 851Before him are Abram Ioffe, Louis Slotin, Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, Paul Drude, Maurice de Broglie, and Jules Antoine Lissajous. After him are Carlo Matteucci, Vladimir Shukhov, Carl Wieman, Yoshio Nishina, Jurij Vega, and Homi J. Bhabha.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1700, Jean-Antoine Nollet ranks 12Before him are Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Sophie Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Ewald Georg von Kleist, Johann Christoph Gottsched, Clemens August of Bavaria, and Charlotte Aglaé d'Orléans. After him are Luigi Vanvitelli, Gerard van Swieten, Sabah I bin Jaber, Baji Rao I, Ashraf Hotak, and Teimuraz II of Kakheti. Among people deceased in 1770, Jean-Antoine Nollet ranks 9Before him are Giuseppe Tartini, Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria, Suzuki Harunobu, Thomas Chatterton, Sophie Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, and Marie-Anne de Cupis de Camargo. After him are George Grenville, Martin van Meytens, George Whitefield, James Stirling, Carl Gustaf Tessin, and Francesco Araja.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Antoine Nollet ranks 2,035 out of 6,770Before him are André Tardieu (1876), Jacques Thibaud (1880), Peter II of Courtenay (1155), Maurice de Broglie (1875), Renée Simonot (1911), and Jules Antoine Lissajous (1822). After him are Gottfried von Strassburg (1180), Joseph-Marie Vien (1716), Henri Estienne (1528), Roland Bonaparte (1858), Michel Zevaco (1860), and Brigitte Fossey (1946).

Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Jean-Antoine Nollet ranks 45Before him are Marguerite Perey (1909), Auguste Bravais (1811), Gaston Planté (1834), Charles Fabry (1867), Maurice de Broglie (1875), and Jules Antoine Lissajous (1822). After him are Louis Poinsot (1777), Léon Brillouin (1889), Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval (1851), Henri Tresca (1814), Louis Paul Cailletet (1832), and Louis-François-Clement Breguet (1804).