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Louis Vicat

1786 - 1861

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Louis Vicat (31 March 1786, Nevers – 10 April 1861, Grenoble) was a French engineer. He graduated from the École Polytechnique in 1804 and the École des Ponts et Chaussées in 1806. Vicat studied the setting of mortars and developed his own. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis Vicat has received more than 35,187 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Vicat is the 257th most popular engineer (down from 256th in 2019), the 4,111th most popular biography from France (down from 3,949th in 2019) and the 47th most popular French Engineer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Louis Vicat ranks 257 out of 389. Before him are Waloddi Weibull, Pierre Cérésole, Johannes Winkler, René Panhard, Oskar von Miller, and Eugène Flachat. After him are Jean-Augustin Barral, William Froude, Gioacchino Colombo, Butler Lampson, Markus Reiner, and Eugene Polley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1786, Louis Vicat ranks 50. Before him are Wilhelm Gesenius, Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar, William R. King, Princess Caroline Louise of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, José María Vargas, and Auguste de Montferrand. After him are Moshoeshoe I, Pavel Schilling, Rudolph Schadow, Henry Bishop, Nathaniel Wallich, and Louis McLane. Among people deceased in 1861, Louis Vicat ranks 48. Before him are Infante João, Duke of Beja, Antun Mihanović, Gabriel Antonio Pereira, Stephen A. Douglas, Francisco del Rosario Sánchez, and Johann Andreas Wagner. After him are Ippolito Nievo, Abel de Pujol, Peter Georg Bang, José María Obando, Malalai of Maiwand, and Michele Tenore.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Vicat ranks 4,111 out of 6,770. Before him are Eugène Lanti (1879), François Remetter (1928), François Sudre (1787), Victor Baltard (1805), Andrée Brunet (1901), and Roger Lapébie (1911). After him are Louis Hémon (1880), Gabrielle Réjane (1856), Henri Laurent (1881), André Patry (1902), Pierre Mac Orlan (1882), and James Smithson (1765).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Louis Vicat ranks 47. Before him are Charles Renard (1847), Antoine Nicolas Duchesne (1747), Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont (1798), Marc Isambard Brunel (1769), René Panhard (1841), and Eugène Flachat (1802). After him are Jean-Augustin Barral (1819), Ernest Goüin (1815), Marcel Deprez (1843), Fulgence Bienvenüe (1852), Louis Pouzin (1931), and Pierre-François Bouchard (1771).

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