INVENTOR

Louis Daguerre

1787 - 1851

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Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre ( də-GAIR; French: [lwi ʒɑk mɑ̃de daɡɛʁ]; 18 November 1787 – 10 July 1851) was a French scientist, artist and photographer, recognized for his invention of the eponymous daguerreotype process of photography. He became known as one of the fathers of photography. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis Daguerre has received more than 1,121,277 page views. His biography is available in 77 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 75 in 2019). Louis Daguerre is the 16th most popular inventor (up from 18th in 2019), the 184th most popular biography from France (down from 167th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Inventor.

Louis Daguerre is most famous for his invention of the daguerreotype process.

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  • 74.01

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  • 77

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Louis Daguerre ranks 16 out of 426. Before him are Guglielmo Marconi, Charles Babbage, Louis Braille, Samuel Morse, Cai Lun, and Nikolaus Otto. After him are George Stephenson, Rudolf Diesel, Nicéphore Niépce, Abbas ibn Firnas, Werner von Siemens, and Bartolomeo Cristofori.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1787, Louis Daguerre ranks 1. After him are Joseph von Fraunhofer, Shaka, Vuk Karadžić, François Guizot, Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este, Rasmus Rask, Guillaume Henri Dufour, Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, Franz Xaver Gruber, and Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov. Among people deceased in 1851, Louis Daguerre ranks 5. Before him are Hans Christian Ørsted, Marie Thérèse of France, J. M. W. Turner, and Mary Shelley. After him are James Fenimore Cooper, Karl Drais, Jean-de-Dieu Soult, Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, Princess Augusta of Bavaria, and Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Daguerre ranks 184 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis VIII of France (1187), Camille Saint-Saëns (1835), Francis II of France (1544), Vilfredo Pareto (1848), Georges Seurat (1859), and Carlo Buonaparte (1746). After him are Henri Rousseau (1844), Pope Clement VI (1291), Louis X of France (1289), Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou (1113), Louis Bonaparte (1778), and Saint Roch (1295).

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Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, Louis Daguerre ranks 2. Before him are Louis Braille (1809). After him are Rudolf Diesel (1858), Nicéphore Niépce (1765), Denis Papin (1647), Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752), Nicolas Appert (1749), Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725), Louis Renault (1877), Louis Blériot (1872), Claude Chappe (1763), and Jacques de Vaucanson (1709).

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