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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 97,303 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre is the 169th most popular mathematician (up from 191st in 2019), the 1,202nd most popular biography from France (up from 1,404th in 2019) and the 35th 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 169 out of 1,004. Before him are André Weil, James Joseph Sylvester, Pierre Bouguer, George Pólya, Felix Hausdorff, and René Thom. After him are Aleksandr Lyapunov, Camille Jordan, Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Marcel Grossmann, Jost Bürgi, and Jean-Pierre Serre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1749, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre ranks 13. Before him are Yolande de Polastron, Domenico Cimarosa, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe, Daniel Rutherford, and Adélaïde Labille-Guiard. After him are Abraham Gottlob Werner, Vittorio Alfieri, Alexander Radishchev, Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, Martin Vahl, and Georg Joseph Vogler. Among people deceased in 1822, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre ranks 9. Before him are Antonio Canova, Ali Pasha of Ioannina, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Claude Louis Berthollet, Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, and Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen. After him are Giovanni Battista Venturi, Paolo Ruffini, René Just Haüy, Valentin Haüy, Karl August von Hardenberg, and Johann Matthäus Bechstein.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre ranks 1,202 out of 6,770. Before him are René Thom (1923), Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma (1930), Louis Jacques Thénard (1777), Jean Todt (1946), Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (1838), and Alain de Benoist (1943). After him are Francis III, Duke of Brittany (1518), Fromental Halévy (1799), Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy (1334), Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (1767), Armand Guillaumin (1841), and Georges Duby (1919).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre ranks 35. Before him are Henri Lebesgue (1875), Joseph Liouville (1809), Michel Rolle (1652), André Weil (1906), Pierre Bouguer (1698), and René Thom (1923). After him are Camille Jordan (1838), Jean-Pierre Serre (1926), Édouard Lucas (1842), Jean Gaston Darboux (1842), Gabriel Lamé (1795), and Laurent Schwartz (1915).

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