PHYSICIST

Jules Antoine Lissajous

1822 - 1880

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Jules Antoine Lissajous (French pronunciation: [ʒyl ɑ̃twan lisaʒu]; 4 March 1822 in Versailles – 24 June 1880 in Plombières-les-Dijon) was a French physicist, after whom Lissajous figures are named. Among other innovations, Lissajous invented the Lissajous apparatus, a device that creates the figures that bear his name. In it, a beam of light is bounced off a mirror attached to a vibrating tuning fork, and then reflected off a second mirror attached to a perpendicularly oriented vibrating tuning fork (usually of a different pitch, creating a specific harmonic interval), onto a wall, resulting in a Lissajous figure. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jules Antoine Lissajous has received more than 63,466 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Jules Antoine Lissajous is the 368th most popular physicist (up from 452nd in 2019), the 2,034th most popular biography from France (up from 2,952nd in 2019) and the 44th most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Jules Antoine Lissajous ranks 368 out of 851. Before him are Charles Fabry, Abram Ioffe, Louis Slotin, Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, Paul Drude, and Maurice de Broglie. After him are Jean-Antoine Nollet, Carlo Matteucci, Vladimir Shukhov, Carl Wieman, Yoshio Nishina, and Jurij Vega.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1822, Jules Antoine Lissajous ranks 29. Before him are Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies, Red Cloud, Juan, Count of Montizón, Henri Murger, Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale, and Joseph Bertrand. After him are Charles Friedel, Joachim Raff, Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Prince Ferdinando, Duke of Genoa, Princess Januária of Brazil, and Matthew Arnold. Among people deceased in 1880, Jules Antoine Lissajous ranks 15. Before him are Anselm Feuerbach, Michel Chasles, Emperor Norton, Bettino Ricasoli, Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, and Édouard Séguin. After him are John Sutter, Léon Cogniet, Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger, Ole Bull, Arnold Ruge, and Sunanda Kumariratana.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jules Antoine Lissajous ranks 2,034 out of 6,770. Before him are Louise de Coligny (1555), André Tardieu (1876), Jacques Thibaud (1880), Peter II of Courtenay (1155), Maurice de Broglie (1875), and Renée Simonot (1911). After him are Jean-Antoine Nollet (1700), Gottfried von Strassburg (1180), Joseph-Marie Vien (1716), Henri Estienne (1528), Roland Bonaparte (1858), and Michel Zevaco (1860).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Jules Antoine Lissajous ranks 44. Before him are Jean-Charles de Borda (1733), Marguerite Perey (1909), Auguste Bravais (1811), Gaston Planté (1834), Charles Fabry (1867), and Maurice de Broglie (1875). After him are Jean-Antoine Nollet (1700), Louis Poinsot (1777), Léon Brillouin (1889), Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval (1851), Henri Tresca (1814), and Louis Paul Cailletet (1832).

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