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Louis Poinsot

1777 - 1859

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Louis Poinsot (French pronunciation: [lwi pwɛ̃so]; 3 January 1777 – 5 December 1859) was a French mathematician and physicist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis Poinsot has received more than 45,541 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Louis Poinsot is the 387th most popular physicist (down from 363rd in 2019), the 2,302nd most popular biography from France (down from 2,118th in 2019) and the 44th most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Louis Poinsot ranks 387 out of 717. Before him are Lyman Spitzer, Chester Carlson, Johann Andreas Segner, Wolfgang Ketterle, Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, and Philip Abelson. After him are Friedrich Paschen, John Henry Poynting, Louis Paul Cailletet, Duncan Haldane, Hendrik Casimir, and Leonard Susskind.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1777, Louis Poinsot ranks 20. Before him are Louis Jacques Thénard, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Adélaïde d'Orléans, Bernard Courtois, Filippo Taglioni, and Guillaume Dupuytren. After him are Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov, William II, Elector of Hesse, Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, Lorenzo Bartolini, Christian Daniel Rauch, and William Brown. Among people deceased in 1859, Louis Poinsot ranks 28. Before him are Karl Baedeker, Abd al-Rahman of Morocco, John Austin, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, and Robert Stephenson. After him are Yoshida Shōin, Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi, Princess Anna of Saxony, Zygmunt Krasiński, Tatya Tope, and Sergey Aksakov.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Poinsot ranks 2,302 out of 6,011. Before him are Marguerite of Lorraine (1615), Benjamin Péret (1899), Henry Beaufort (1374), Gonzalo Higuaín (1987), Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens (1704), and Johann Hermann (1738). After him are Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (1816), Adémar de Chabannes (989), Eleanor of Castile, Queen of Navarre (1363), Paul Adam (1862), Fred Vargas (1957), and Bernadette Lafont (1938).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Louis Poinsot ranks 44. Before him are Jean-Antoine Nollet (1700), Henri Pitot (1695), Léon Brillouin (1889), Maurice de Broglie (1875), Henri Tresca (1814), and Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval (1851). After him are Louis Paul Cailletet (1832), Auguste Bravais (1811), Jules Jamin (1818), Alain Aspect (1947), Marie Alfred Cornu (1841), and Gaspard de Prony (1755).

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