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Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre

1749 - 1822

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Jean Baptiste Joseph, chevalier Delambre (19 September 1749 – 19 August 1822) was a French mathematician, astronomer, historian of astronomy, and geodesist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre has received more than 87,919 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre is the 191st most popular mathematician (down from 187th in 2019), the 1,409th most popular biography from France (down from 1,353rd in 2019) and the 41st most popular French Mathematician.

Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre is most famous for his work on the measurement of the earth. He was a mathematician and astronomer who measured the circumference of the earth to be 24,900 miles.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre ranks 191 out of 823. Before him are Ibn Yunus, Paul Guldin, Vladimir Arnold, Al-Karaji, Antoine Augustin Cournot, and Scipione del Ferro. After him are Callippus, Marcel Grossmann, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, Jan Łukasiewicz, Richard von Mises, and Laurent Schwartz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1749, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre ranks 12. Before him are Nicolas Appert, Domenico Cimarosa, Yolande de Polastron, Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe, Lorenzo Da Ponte, and Daniel Rutherford. After him are Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Vittorio Alfieri, Abraham Gottlob Werner, Alexander Radishchev, Johann Nikolaus Forkel, and Georg Joseph Vogler. Among people deceased in 1822, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre ranks 10. Before him are Antonio Canova, Ali Pasha of Ioannina, Claude Louis Berthollet, Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen, Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, and Giovanni Battista Venturi. After him are Valentin Haüy, Paolo Ruffini, René Just Haüy, Johann Matthäus Bechstein, Karl August von Hardenberg, and Jean-Robert Argand.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre ranks 1,409 out of 6,011. Before him are Jacques Laffite (1943), Ernest Meissonier (1815), Étienne Marcel (1315), François Fillon (1954), Clément Ader (1841), and Cécile Chaminade (1857). After him are Vivant Denon (1747), Bernard of Italy (797), Philibert I, Duke of Savoy (1465), Hubert Robert (1733), Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz (1936), and Isabella of Bourbon (1437).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre ranks 41. Before him are René Thom (1923), Pierre Bouguer (1698), Jean-Pierre Serre (1926), Camille Jordan (1838), Étienne-Louis Malus (1775), and Antoine Augustin Cournot (1801). After him are Laurent Schwartz (1915), Édouard Lucas (1842), Élie Cartan (1869), Gilles de Roberval (1602), Henri Cartan (1904), and Édouard Roche (1820).

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