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Jean Charles Athanase Peltier

1785 - 1845

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Jean Charles Athanase Peltier (; French: [pɛltje]; 22 February 1785 – 27 October 1845) was a French physicist. He was originally a watch dealer, but at the age of 30 began experiments and observations in physics. Peltier was the author of numerous papers in different departments of physics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Charles Athanase Peltier has received more than 93,960 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Jean Charles Athanase Peltier is the 343rd most popular physicist (down from 328th in 2019), the 1,750th most popular biography from France (down from 1,739th in 2019) and the 37th most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Jean Charles Athanase Peltier ranks 343 out of 851. Before him are Frank Oppenheimer, Philip Abelson, John Stewart Bell, John Theophilus Desaguliers, Shuji Nakamura, and Hans Kramers. After him are Jean-Charles de Borda, Franz Ernst Neumann, Walter A. Shewhart, Leopold Infeld, William Sturgeon, and Marguerite Perey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1785, Jean Charles Athanase Peltier ranks 13. Before him are Lin Zexu, Claude-Louis Navier, Thomas De Quincey, Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Pierre Louis Dulong, and John James Audubon. After him are Hans Karl von Diebitsch, Florestan I, Prince of Monaco, Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Diponegoro, Carl Adolph Agardh, and William Prout. Among people deceased in 1845, Jean Charles Athanase Peltier ranks 9. Before him are August Wilhelm Schlegel, John Frederic Daniell, Roustam Raza, Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Guadalupe Victoria, and Louis-Léopold Boilly. After him are Bernardino Rivadavia, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mikhailovna of Russia, Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach, Isabella Colbran, Simon Mayr, and Henrik Wergeland.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Charles Athanase Peltier ranks 1,750 out of 6,770. Before him are Everard des Barres (1113), Just Jaeckin (1940), Amadeus IV, Count of Savoy (1197), Georges Duhamel (1884), Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol (1772), and Jean-Pierre Rampal (1922). After him are Jean-Charles de Borda (1733), Guillaume de Lorris (1200), Gérard Houllier (1947), Henry de Montherlant (1895), Diane de France (1538), and Henri Jules, Prince of Condé (1643).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Jean Charles Athanase Peltier ranks 37. Before him are Hélène Langevin-Joliot (1927), Paul-Jacques Curie (1855), Henri Pitot (1695), Félix Savart (1791), Pierre Louis Dulong (1785), and John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683). After him are Jean-Charles de Borda (1733), Marguerite Perey (1909), Auguste Bravais (1811), Gaston Planté (1834), Charles Fabry (1867), and Maurice de Broglie (1875).

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