1777 - 1859
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, 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.
1914 - 1997
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 381
1906 - 1968
HPI: 55.13
Rank: 382
1704 - 1777
HPI: 55.12
Rank: 383
1957 - Present
HPI: 55.03
Rank: 384
1851 - 1940
HPI: 55.00
Rank: 385
1913 - 2004
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 386
1777 - 1859
HPI: 54.96
Rank: 387
1865 - 1947
HPI: 54.95
Rank: 388
1852 - 1914
HPI: 54.90
Rank: 389
1832 - 1913
HPI: 54.83
Rank: 390
1951 - Present
HPI: 54.76
Rank: 391
1909 - 2000
HPI: 54.74
Rank: 392
1940 - Present
HPI: 54.72
Rank: 393
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.
1777 - 1857
HPI: 60.76
Rank: 14
1777 - 1843
HPI: 58.24
Rank: 15
1777 - 1847
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 16
1777 - 1838
HPI: 57.39
Rank: 17
1777 - 1871
HPI: 56.46
Rank: 18
1777 - 1835
HPI: 56.22
Rank: 19
1777 - 1859
HPI: 54.96
Rank: 20
1777 - 1861
HPI: 54.89
Rank: 21
1777 - 1847
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 22
1777 - 1850
HPI: 54.56
Rank: 23
1777 - 1850
HPI: 54.33
Rank: 24
1777 - 1857
HPI: 53.73
Rank: 25
1777 - 1857
HPI: 53.38
Rank: 26
1801 - 1859
HPI: 56.81
Rank: 22
1779 - 1859
HPI: 56.67
Rank: 23
1790 - 1859
HPI: 56.53
Rank: 24
1800 - 1859
HPI: 55.89
Rank: 25
1786 - 1859
HPI: 55.50
Rank: 26
1803 - 1859
HPI: 55.44
Rank: 27
1777 - 1859
HPI: 54.96
Rank: 28
1830 - 1859
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 29
1787 - 1859
HPI: 54.62
Rank: 30
1836 - 1859
HPI: 54.55
Rank: 31
1812 - 1859
HPI: 54.46
Rank: 32
1814 - 1859
HPI: 54.29
Rank: 33
1791 - 1859
HPI: 53.31
Rank: 34
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).
1615 - 1672
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 2,296
1899 - 1959
HPI: 54.98
Rank: 2,297
1374 - 1447
HPI: 54.98
Rank: 2,298
1987 - Present
HPI: 54.98
Rank: 2,299
1704 - 1771
HPI: 54.97
Rank: 2,300
1738 - 1800
HPI: 54.96
Rank: 2,301
1777 - 1859
HPI: 54.96
Rank: 2,302
1816 - 1856
HPI: 54.95
Rank: 2,303
989 - 1034
HPI: 54.95
Rank: 2,304
1363 - 1416
HPI: 54.94
Rank: 2,305
1862 - 1920
HPI: 54.93
Rank: 2,306
1957 - Present
HPI: 54.92
Rank: 2,307
1938 - 2013
HPI: 54.92
Rank: 2,308
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).
1700 - 1770
HPI: 56.43
Rank: 38
1695 - 1771
HPI: 56.40
Rank: 39
1889 - 1969
HPI: 56.31
Rank: 40
1875 - 1960
HPI: 55.48
Rank: 41
1814 - 1885
HPI: 55.20
Rank: 42
1851 - 1940
HPI: 55.00
Rank: 43
1777 - 1859
HPI: 54.96
Rank: 44
1832 - 1913
HPI: 54.83
Rank: 45
1811 - 1863
HPI: 53.79
Rank: 46
1818 - 1886
HPI: 53.53
Rank: 47
1947 - Present
HPI: 53.38
Rank: 48
1841 - 1902
HPI: 53.34
Rank: 49
1755 - 1839
HPI: 53.14
Rank: 50