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Louis-François-Clement Breguet

1804 - 1883

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Louis François Clément Breguet (22 December 1804 – 27 October 1883), was a French physicist and watchmaker, noted for his work in the early days of telegraphy. Educated in Switzerland, Breguet was the grandson of Abraham-Louis Breguet, founder of the watch manufacturing company Breguet. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis-François-Clement Breguet has received more than 28,006 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Louis-François-Clement Breguet is the 546th most popular physicist (up from 547th in 2019), the 3,637th most popular biography from France (down from 3,382nd in 2019) and the 60th most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Louis-François-Clement Breguet ranks 546 out of 717. Before him are Wallace Clement Sabine, William Edward Ayrton, Albert Betz, Jürgen Ehlers, Dirk Coster, and Gustave Trouvé. After him are Giuseppe Occhialini, William D. Coolidge, Charles Kittel, Bert Bolin, Étienne-Gaspard Robert, and Ferdinand Monoyer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1804, Louis-François-Clement Breguet ranks 52. Before him are Osceola, Jules Dupuit, Victor Schœlcher, Jules Janin, Alvan Clark, and Princess Ida of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym. After him are Franz Meyen, Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, Richard Cobden, Salomon Müller, Julius Benedict, and Alfred Moquin-Tandon. Among people deceased in 1883, Louis-François-Clement Breguet ranks 54. Before him are Mahmud Nedim Pasha, Francesco de Sanctis, Butrus al-Bustani, John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough, Edward Sabine, and Heinrich von Ferstel. After him are Seru Epenisa Cakobau, Alexander H. Stephens, Alexandros Koumoundouros, Joachim Barrande, Oswald Heer, and Sven Nilsson.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis-François-Clement Breguet ranks 3,637 out of 6,011. Before him are Gustave Trouvé (1839), Marc René, marquis de Montalembert (1714), Edmund, Earl of Rutland (1443), Jean Mermoz (1901), Benoît Jacquot (1947), and Eugène Belgrand (1810). After him are Adolphe Nourrit (1802), Marc Isambard Brunel (1769), Elias I, Count of Maine (1100), Marcel Jouhandeau (1888), Jean-Jacques Marcel (1931), and Jean Clair (1940).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Louis-François-Clement Breguet ranks 60. Before him are Claude Pouillet (1790), Pierre Victor Auger (1899), Pierre Weiss (1865), Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700), Alexis Thérèse Petit (1791), and Gustave Trouvé (1839). After him are Ferdinand Monoyer (1836), Carl August von Steinheil (1801), Alfred Perot (1863), Charles Fabry (1867), Hubert Curien (1924), and Jacques Friedel (1921).

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