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John Theophilus Desaguliers

1683 - 1744

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John Theophilus Desaguliers (12 March 1683 – 29 February 1744) was a French-born British natural philosopher, clergyman, engineer and freemason who was elected to the Royal Society in 1714 as experimental assistant to Isaac Newton. He had studied at Oxford and later popularized Newtonian theories and their practical applications in public lectures. Desaguliers's most important patron was James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Theophilus Desaguliers has received more than 133,712 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). John Theophilus Desaguliers is the 340th most popular physicist (up from 342nd in 2019), the 1,728th most popular biography from France (up from 1,901st in 2019) and the 36th most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, John Theophilus Desaguliers ranks 340 out of 851. Before him are Otto Schmidt, Frank Wilczek, Ferenc Krausz, Frank Oppenheimer, Philip Abelson, and John Stewart Bell. After him are Shuji Nakamura, Hans Kramers, Jean Charles Athanase Peltier, Jean-Charles de Borda, Franz Ernst Neumann, and Walter A. Shewhart.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1683, John Theophilus Desaguliers ranks 8. Before him are Jean-Philippe Rameau, Caroline of Ansbach, George II of Great Britain, René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, 6th Dalai Lama, and Maria Anna of Austria. After him are Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Gottfried Silbermann, Christoph Graupner, Edward Young, Christian Ludwig II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Burkhard Christoph von Münnich. Among people deceased in 1744, John Theophilus Desaguliers ranks 11. Before him are Alexander Pope, Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, Giuseppe Guarneri, Marie Anne de Mailly, André Campra, and Leonardo Leo. After him are Antiochus Kantemir, Johann Heinrich Schulze, John Hadley, Ludwig Andreas von Khevenhüller, and Filippo Randazzo.

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In France

Among people born in France, John Theophilus Desaguliers ranks 1,728 out of 6,770. Before him are Fernand Cormon (1845), René Grousset (1885), Jacques de Vitry (1170), Pierre Balmain (1914), Antoine Barnave (1761), and Thoinot Arbeau (1520). After him are Henri-Edmond Cross (1856), Alix of France (1151), Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges (1830), Georges Delerue (1925), Thierry Mugler (1948), and Beatrice of Provence (1229).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, John Theophilus Desaguliers ranks 36. Before him are Anne L'Huillier (1958), Hélène Langevin-Joliot (1927), Paul-Jacques Curie (1855), Henri Pitot (1695), Félix Savart (1791), and Pierre Louis Dulong (1785). After him are Jean Charles Athanase Peltier (1785), Jean-Charles de Borda (1733), Marguerite Perey (1909), Auguste Bravais (1811), Gaston Planté (1834), and Charles Fabry (1867).

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