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Jean-Charles de Borda

1733 - 1799

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Jean-Charles, chevalier de Borda (4 May 1733 – 19 February 1799) was a French mathematician, physicist, and Navy officer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Charles de Borda has received more than 99,815 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Jean-Charles de Borda is the 345th most popular physicist (down from 309th in 2019), the 1,752nd most popular biography from France (down from 1,571st in 2019) and the 38th most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Jean-Charles de Borda ranks 345 out of 851. Before him are Philip Abelson, John Stewart Bell, John Theophilus Desaguliers, Shuji Nakamura, Hans Kramers, and Jean Charles Athanase Peltier. After him are Franz Ernst Neumann, Walter A. Shewhart, Leopold Infeld, William Sturgeon, Marguerite Perey, and Moritz von Jacobi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1733, Jean-Charles de Borda ranks 8. Before him are Victoire of France, Magtymguly Pyragy, Christoph Martin Wieland, Siraj ud-Daulah, Carsten Niebuhr, and Hubert Robert. After him are Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland, Gottfried van Swieten, Daniel Solander, Christoph Friedrich Nicolai, Maruyama Ōkyo, and George Read. Among people deceased in 1799, Jean-Charles de Borda ranks 18. Before him are Heshen, Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria, Étienne-Louis Boullée, Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, and Jan Ingenhousz. After him are Jean-François Marmontel, Johann Hedwig, Barthélemy Catherine Joubert, Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz, Pierre Pigneau de Behaine, and Claude Balbastre.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Charles de Borda ranks 1,752 out of 6,770. Before him are Just Jaeckin (1940), Amadeus IV, Count of Savoy (1197), Georges Duhamel (1884), Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol (1772), Jean-Pierre Rampal (1922), and Jean Charles Athanase Peltier (1785). After him are Guillaume de Lorris (1200), Gérard Houllier (1947), Henry de Montherlant (1895), Diane de France (1538), Henri Jules, Prince of Condé (1643), and Albin Lermusiaux (1874).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Jean-Charles de Borda ranks 38. Before him are Paul-Jacques Curie (1855), Henri Pitot (1695), Félix Savart (1791), Pierre Louis Dulong (1785), John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683), and Jean Charles Athanase Peltier (1785). After him are Marguerite Perey (1909), Auguste Bravais (1811), Gaston Planté (1834), Charles Fabry (1867), Maurice de Broglie (1875), and Jules Antoine Lissajous (1822).

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