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Léon Brillouin

1889 - 1969

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Léon Nicolas Brillouin (French: [leɔ̃ nikɔla bʁijwɛ̃]; August 7, 1889 – October 4, 1969) was a French physicist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Léon Brillouin has received more than 146,115 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Léon Brillouin is the 393rd most popular physicist (down from 350th in 2019), the 2,237th most popular biography from France (down from 1,961st in 2019) and the 47th most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Léon Brillouin ranks 393 out of 851. Before him are Louis Poinsot, Wolfgang Ketterle, George Johnstone Stoney, John Henry Poynting, Franz Aepinus, and Friedrich Paschen. After him are Friedrich Ernst Dorn, Edward Witten, Takaaki Kajita, Samuel Goudsmit, Hantaro Nagaoka, and Chester Carlson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Léon Brillouin ranks 80. Before him are Ernst Niekisch, Reşat Nuri Güntekin, Efim Bogoljubov, Kenwa Mabuni, Rezső Seress, and Erhard Raus. After him are Imre Schlosser, Mile Budak, Erle Stanley Gardner, Gabriel Hanot, Fritz Pfeffer, and Willi Münzenberg. Among people deceased in 1969, Léon Brillouin ranks 71. Before him are Frederic Bartlett, Kimon Georgiev, Prince Konrad of Bavaria, Mikio Naruse, Adolfo López Mateos, and Meher Baba. After him are Michael Lippert, Claude Dornier, John Kennedy Toole, He Long, C. N. Annadurai, and Muhammad Siddiq Al-Minshawi.

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In France

Among people born in France, Léon Brillouin ranks 2,237 out of 6,770. Before him are Fred Vargas (1957), Christian Jacq (1947), Eugene Maurice, Count of Soissons (1635), Étienne Dolet (1509), Sébastien Japrisot (1931), and Elena Poniatowska (1932). After him are Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay (1712), Françoise Madeleine d'Orléans (1648), Sophie Gengembre Anderson (1823), Jacques Amyot (1513), Joseph Monier (1823), and René Fonck (1894).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Léon Brillouin ranks 47. Before him are Gaston Planté (1834), Charles Fabry (1867), Maurice de Broglie (1875), Jules Antoine Lissajous (1822), Jean-Antoine Nollet (1700), and Louis Poinsot (1777). After him are Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval (1851), Henri Tresca (1814), Louis Paul Cailletet (1832), Louis-François-Clement Breguet (1804), Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille (1797), and Jules Jamin (1818).

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